...agency's Web site. ''A decision to turn around sooner would have benefited this flight,'' NTSB investigator Scott Erickson said Tuesday. ''This is not an accident caused by weather,'' Jerry Paterson, of the Federal Aviation Administration's...

...crash as a major event and will send investigators to the crash site from Anchorage and Washington, D.C., said Scott Erickson in the Anchorage office. Temperatures were in the low to mid-30s, skies were clear and no wind was reported...

...not likely a factor. Temperatures were in the low to mid-30s, generally considered too high for ice to form. Scott Erickson of the National Transportation Safety Board office in Anchorage said Friday eight investigators are studying the Dillingham...