5 killed in helicopter crash in Alaska's backcountry
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A contracted helicopter carrying guides and guests from a lodge on a heli-skiing trip in Alaska's backcountry crashed, killing the pilot and four others, authorities said. The only other person onboard was in serious condition but stable Sunday at an Anchorage hospital, troopers said.
Alaska State Troopers identified the victims as 52-year-old Colorado resident Gregory Harms; 56-year-old Petr Kellner and 50-year-old Benjamin Larochaix (both from the Czech Republic); 38-year-old Sean McManamy from Girdwood; and 33-year-old pilot Zachary Russell from Anchorage. The five passengers included three guests and two guides from Tordrillo Mountain Lodge, said company spokesperson Mary Ann Pruitt. It was not immediately clear which victims were guests or guides.Billions of cicadas are emerging across about 16 states in the Southeast and Midwest. Periodical cicadas used to reliably emerge every 13 or 17 years, depending on their brood. But in a warming world where spring conditions arrive sooner, climate change is messing with the bugs' internal alarm clocks.
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