As the broad-beamed U.S. Navy missile-test ship Norton Sound pulled away from her dock at Port Hueneme, Calif, shortly after dusk one day last August, a dockhand bellowed to Captain Arthur Gralla ...

The Cessna 208B took off from Unalakleet, on the coast of Norton Sound in western Alaska, at 2:37 p.m. on Feb. 6, and it was headed towards Nome, which is about 140 miles away. It did not arrive ...

The wreckage was found a day later on a floating icepack on Norton Sound. It was "the third major US aviation mishap in eight days," per the Guardian, after a jetliner and army helicopter collided ...

Last month 10 people died when a small commuter plane that was overweight by half a ton crashed onto sea ice in the Norton Sound, near Nome on the state's western coast. And five years ago ...