FIVE people have been killed, including one Australian, and 10 others injured after two seaplanes collided in mid-air over south-east Alaska.
The passengers, who were returning from a Misty Fjords shore excursion with Princess Cruises’ Royal Princess ship, were killed when a de Havilland Otter DHC-2 Beaver collided with a de Havilland Otter DHC-3 approximately 12km from the town of Ketchikan.
The seven-day Voyage of the Glaciers cruise departed 11 May and is due to arrive on schedule in Anchorage on Sat 18 May, Princess Cruises confirmed in a statement.