captions by vitac www.vitac.com we are following the breaking news of a plane crash in the alaska wild erness that has claimed the life of ted stevens. and sean o keefe is confirmed to be among the survivors. casey wian is working the story for us in anchorage with the latest. what are you picking up, casey? reporter: well, wolf, we landed an hour ago in anchorage, alaska, which is a ways away from crash site. but i got off of the phone with a man who is a commercial pilot and he is one of two commercial pilots who initially spotted the crash last night, and alerted authorities that there was a crash, and that there were going to be victims. he told me about the scene of the crash. what he said is that the plane simply ran into the mountain. the plane was carrying nine passengers, and we have since learned that five of those passengers were killed,