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(Photo by Philip Pacheco/Getty Images) A healthcare worker prepares to administer a Pfizer/BioNTEch coronavirus disease (Covid-19) vaccine at The Michener Institute, in Toronto, Ontario on December 14, 2020. - Ontario, Canada's most populous province and one of the hardest hit by the pandemic, had 1,940 new cases and 23 deaths on Monday. The province is expected to give its next doses to nursing home workers as a priority, according to media reports. (Photo by CARLOS OSORIO / POOL / AFP) (Photo by CARLOS OSORIO/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) 'Never seen levels like this': Union president on airline passenger misconduct Memorial Day weekend will bring rain and cool air for much of the East Emergency response crews transport an injured passenger to an ambulance at the George Inlet Lodge docks, Monday, May 13, 2019, in Ketchikan, Alaska. The passenger was from one of two float planes reported down in George Inlet early Monday afternoon and was dropped off by a U.S. Coast Guard 45-foot response boat. (Dustin Safranek/Ketchikan Daily News via AP) (CNN) — At least four people are dead after two floatplanes carrying cruise ship passengers collided in flight near Ketchikan, Alaska, according to the US Coast Guard. The passengers on both planes were guests on a Princess Cruises ship, the Royal Princess, which is on a seven-day trip. The Coast Guard, which is leading an investigation into the Monday afternoon crash, told CNN it is still looking for two people. Ten people were rescued and are receiving medical care following the collision between a Beaver floatplane and an Otter floatplane, the Coast Guard said Tuesday in a statement. A floatplane is an aircraft with pontoons or floats that allow it to land on water. Commercial divers recovered one body Monday night from the submerged Otter floatplane, the Coast Guard said. Fourteen Americans, one Canadian and one Australian were on the two planes, according to the Coast Guard. The crash happened around 1 p.m. (5 p.m. ET) and involved two planes carrying Royal Princess passengers on separate excursions, Princess Cruises said. One plane, operated by Taquan Air, was flying a shore excursion – a tour of Alaska’s Misty Fjords – sold through Princess Cruises. It was carrying 10 passengers and a pilot, the cruise line said. The second plane was carrying a pilot and four passengers on an independent tour, the company said. One Taquan Air passenger died, Princess Cruises said. Three people aboard the other plane – two American passengers and an American pilot – died, Princess Cruises said. U.S. Coast Guard District 17 Wreckage from the mid-air collison of the two floatplanes. “Rescue efforts continue for the two other guests, one Australian and one Canadian,” the cruise line said. “We are deeply saddened to report this news and our thoughts and prayers are with those who lost their lives and the families of those impacted by today’s accident. Princess Cruises is extending its full support to traveling companions of the guests involved,” the company said Monday. The Ketchikan Volunteer Rescue Squad is searching the shoreline and forested areas near the crash site, according to the Coast Guard. Commercial divers remain on scene to assist in the search. Taquan Air, a regional airline based in Ketchikan, released a statement saying it was “in the midst of an active crisis response, and our focus is on assisting these passengers, the pilot, our staff, their families and loved ones, and first responders.” “Taquan Air has suspended all scheduled flights and is cooperating fully with the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and other authorities to examine every aspect of this event,” the Taquan Air statement said. The NTSB tweeted Monday night that it was launching a “go team” to investigate the collision. NTSB launching Go Team to investigate midair collision involving a DHC-2 and a DHC-3T about 10 miles northeast of Ketchikan, Alaska at about 1 pm ADT today. Media availability will be at Hangar 6 at DCA airport at 8:00 am EDT Tuesday morning, just before team departs. — NTSB_Newsroom (@NTSB_Newsroom) May 14, 2019 The Royal Princess’ current voyage originated in Vancouver, British Columbia, over the weekend and is scheduled to end Saturday in Anchorage, Alaska, the company said. Part of the voyage, the company’s website said, included “scenic glacier viewing” with stops at Juneau, Ketchikan and Skagway. CNN’s Joe Sutton, Darran Simon, Dave Alsup, Amanda Jackson and Artemis Moshtaghian contributed to this report.<doc-sep>Anchorage: Two seaplanes collided in midair on Monday over south-eastern Alaska, killing at least four of those aboard, injuring 10 others and leaving three people missing, US Coast Guard and Federal Aviation Administration officials said. A seaplane crash near Ketchikan, Alaska, in 2018. Credit:AP The two aircraft went down over water about 40-48 kilometres north-east of Ketchikan, Coast Guard Petty Officer Jon-Paul Rios said. The crash site, which the FAA said was at Coon Cove near George Inlet, lies in the vicinity of a popular tourist lodge that runs excursions to the nearby Misty Fjords National Monument, about 480 kilometres south of Juneau, Alaska's capital. One of the aircraft was a de Havilland DHC-2 Beaver with five people aboard, and the other was a de Havilland Otter DHC-3 carrying 11 people, FAA spokesman Allen Kenitzer said.<doc-sep>
At least five people cruise ship passengers are dead and nine people are injured after two planes collided mid-air over southeastern Alaska in the United States on Monday. The two seaplanes, a Taquan Air plane carrying 11 people and an independent tour plane carrying another five, went down over water about 40-48km northeast of Ketchikan after 1pm, the US Coast Guard and search and rescue teams confirmed. All five people, including the pilot, on board the second aircraft were killed. The condition of one passenger on the Taquan Air flight is unknown. Princess Cruise Lines confirmed all the passengers on the planes were their guests. "We are incredibly distressed by the situation, and our thoughts and prayers are with those onboard the planes and their families," the cruise line said in a statement. The crash site, which the FAA said was at Coon Cove near George Inlet, lies in the vicinity of a popular tourist lodge that runs excursions to the nearby Misty Fjords National Monument, about 480km south of Alaska's capital Juneau. A spokesperson for the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trading told 7NEWS.com.au, “the Australian Consulate-General in Los Angeles is making urgent inquiries of local authorities to determine whether any Australians were affected by the plane crash in Alaska. At this time, we are not aware of any Australians being affected.” Neither of the single-engine planes was under air traffic control when they collided, and circumstances of the crash were not immediately known. The Princess Cruise left Vancouver on May 11 for a seven-day Voyage of the Glaciers tour. - With AAP