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The chairperson of the company that owns Turkey’s Pegasus Airlines has been injured in a boating accident while vacationing in Greece ANKARA, Turkey -- The chairperson of the company that owns low-cost Turkish carrier Pegasus Airlines was injured in a boating accident while vacationing in Greece, Esas Holding said Friday. His wife, Business person Vuslat Dogan Sabanci, also was injured. Media reports said the couple were seriously in an accident late Thursday. A company statement later reported an “improvement” in their conditions but did not elaborate. A speedboat taking the couple to shore crash ed into rocks off the Aegean Sea island of Leros, Turkish news agency DHA and other media outlets reported. The two were evacuated to the nearby Turkish resort of Bodrum for treatment, from where Ali Sabanci, 54, was airlifted to a hospital in Istanbul. Vuslat Dogan Sabanci, 52, was transferred later to the same hospital. A Greek coast guard statement said there were six people on the speedbo...

Authorities in Alaska say search and rescue divers have recovered the bodies of a helicopter pilot and three state scientists whose aircraft went down in a shallow lake last week ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Alaska search and rescue divers recovered the bodies of a helicopter pilot and three scientists on Sunday from the sunken wreckage of their aircraft, which went down in a shallow lake last week on the remote North Slope, authorities said. The cause of the crash is under investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board. The only way to raise the wreckage will be to use another helicopter because it's in the middle of one of the many lakes scattered across the vast tundra, said Clint Johnson, the chief of the National Transportation Safety Board’s Alaska region. “In Alaska, here during the fire season, commercial helicopter s are at a premium so we are having challenges getting a helicopter to do the work,” he said Sunday. The dead were identified by the North Slope Police D...