probably complicated things. reporter: rose makes clear he does not think that flying planes in alaska is inherently dangerous, as a former military transport pilot, he said that senator stevens knew the risks and he was always careful. rose says in alaska with terrain so vast and rugged and remote, there is virtually no other mode of travel that is practical for a politician. and history does bear that out. in 1972, house majority leader hail boggs was in a plane that disappeared over alaska and he was in the plane with the father of the current senator mark begich who was a congressman at that time and that plane was not found, and senator stevens was, himself, involved in a leer jet crash in 1978 that killed his wife. in the broader sense, politic n politicians sometimes don t look at the dangers rushing from campaign stop to campaign stop and i asked mitch rose about that. reporter: how much pressure do politicians feel to get on that small plane to get to the next rally knowin
died on that crash with hail boggs, the former house leader. thank you very much, kelly, we look forward to your reports throughout the day and of course on nightly news. more on today s primaries coming up next with washington post chris cillizza. stay with us. when you pursue an mba at devry university s. keller graduate school of management, you ll have a professor with you every step of the way. whether you take classes on campus, online, or both, you get the same attention, the same curriculum, and the same quality.
they can haul a greater load. this airplane is capable of holding 10 to 11 people on board. i know that they had eight or nine. and so the capabilities of the airplane is very good, but like anything else if the pilot is down low trying to avoid the clouds and he is flying in an area of high terrain that he may not see, then no matter how the airplane is equipped or the capabilities, if he can t outclimb the particular terrain or avoid that terrain because he didn t see it then we have an issue but that airplane has been a solid performer it is very well liked up in alaska because you can land it on floats in the water, you can put skis on it. you can actually land it on a hard surface as well. so there is a variety of uses of that airplane. briefly, greg, why is it that there were so many air crashes up there? we know so many, going all the way back to hail boggs and the former majority leader of the house, cokie roberts father who died so many decades ago there. we have known of a