Does ANYBODY have a clue about the names of the crash victims in Alaska?

[Are_grits_groceries]

They are from SC.
I have relatives up there and my brother told me others had gone to visit.

I realize there are more people from SC in Alaska than those I am related to. Just don't like this. As my Mama would say, "Borrowing trouble."

Nobody has heard anything or if something did happen, the news is working it's way through eleventy billion relatives through the entire state.

[SheilaT]

1. Have you tried getting in touch with those relatives?

Or with others who would know where your relatives are?

The delay in releasing the names is almost certainly a delay in contacting next of kin.

[Are_grits_groceries]

3. I've reached out to a couple.

My brother is reaching out to a few.
The ones I would normally contact first are up there visiting.

I am not kidding about my number of relatives. Both parents had 9 siblings. (My Mama's side has been in SC since the early 1700s. Because of that second fun fact, I am probably distantly related to the entire state. I know I am related somehow to this entire area.)

I have 35 first cousins on one side. I am trying to figure who might have info first. Since our parents have died, the old channel of communication is broken.

[uppityperson]

2. Try the anchorage daily news (ADN) sorry don't have link

Hoping for the best

[Bandit]

4. They just recovered the remains and sent them to the lab for identification and possible autopsy.

It was a flight with tourist so all but the pilot were out of state.

[Tx4obama]

5. Here's some info

UPDATE 1:50 PM MONDAY:

From The State (Columbia, S.C.)--

A family of five from Greenville was among the nine people from South Carolina killed in a plane crash on Sunday in Soldotna, Alaska.

Milton Antonakos, his wife, Kimberly, and their three children -- Mills, Anna and Olivia -- were killed, according to state Rep. Bruce Bannister, R-Greenville, who was the Antonakos' neighbor.

Another family of four, also from Greenville, was aboard the plane and has not yet been identified.

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http://www.adn.com/2013/07/08/2967689/all-9-passengers-who-died-in-soldotna.html