Infant among 4 killed when small plane crashes near Alaska village

   Alaska Dept. of Public SafetyThis photo, provided by the state of Alaska, shows wreckage from the Cessna 208 operated by Hageland Aviation that crashed near St. Marys village on Friday. By Simon Moya-Smith and Jay Blackman, Staff Writers, NBC NewsFour people were killed -- including an infant -- and six injured after a small commercial flight crashed Friday near a remote village in western Alaska, police said. After failing to revive her newborn, the mother then walked nearly a mile to seek help, police said.The pilot and three passengers died in the Friday night crash near the village of St. Marys, Megan Peters, a spokeswoman for the Alaska State Troopers, said Saturday.The dead were identified as pilot Terry Hansen, Rose Polty and Richard Polty and the infant, Wyatt Coffee.Peters said she had no immediate word on the six survivors' condition.The single-engine, turboprop Cessna 208 was a Hageland Aviation flight from Bethel to Mountain Village and Saint Marys, said Kathy Roser, a spokeswoman for Era Alaska airline. Hageland is part of Era Alaska.Jim Hickerson, president of Hageland Aviation, told the Anchorage Daily News the six survivors were injured.The wreckage was found about 4 miles east of Saint Marys. Troopers and an air ambulance service responded to the scene, Peters said.The survivors are Melanie Coffee, Pauline Johnson, Kylan Johnson, Tonya Lawrence, Garrett Moses and Shannon Lawrence.Coffee unsuccessfully tried to revive her newborn baby and then walked nearly a mile to lead searchers to the wreckage site.Village Police Officer Fred Lamont Jr. said Saint Marys responders received word of the crash when Coffee of Mountain Village called a village health aide seeking help in resuscitating her newborn.Lamont says Coffee considered starting a fire to attract searchers but finally just walked to lights near the community landfill, where she met searchers.An emergency locator beacon signal helped pinpoint the crash site, National Transportation Safety Board investigator Clint Johnson said.There was no immediate word on what caused the crash. The NTSB told NBC News that it would send two investigators to investigate the accident.The temperature in the area Friday night was about 18 degrees.Saint Marys, with a population of about 500, is roughly 470 miles from Anchorage.NBC News' Tom Costello and Justin Kirschner and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Woman found living 'normal life' in Australia 19 years after abduction as an infant in SC

a Center for Missing and Exploited ChildrenSavanna Catherine Todd as she would have appeared at age 16 in a computer rendering.By M. Alex Johnson, Staff Writer, NBC NewsAn infant girl who was abducted in South Carolina 19 years ago has been found living a "normal life" in Australia, authorities said, and her mother faces federal kidnapping and other charges.Savanna Catherine Todd, now 20, of Isle of Palms, S.C., disappeared in April 1994 as her parents were in the middle of a bitter divorce battle. Until earlier this month, she hadn't been seen since, William Nettles, the U.S. attorney for South Carolina, said in a statement.The statement gave few details, saying only that Todd "has been located and found to be safe, healthy and otherwise living a normal life" and that her mother, Dorothy Lee Barnett, was arrested Nov. 4 in Australia.Barnett — who is now 53 and had been living in Queensland under the aliases Alexandria Maria Canton and Alexandria Maria Geldenhuys — was denied bond Wednesday and was ordered extradited to the United States. No hearing date was entered.A grand jury indictment unsealed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Charleston charges Barnett with one count of international parental kidnapping and two counts of making false statements in passport applications when she sought to return to the U.S. in 2003 and 2004. She faces up to 23 years in prison if convicted.According to police and missing persons records from the original investigation, Savanna was 9 months old when she vanished on April 24, 1994. Her father, Harris Todd, a prominent developer in Kentucky and South Carolina, had custody, but Barnett was allowed supervised weekends of visitation.During one of those visits, Barnett persuaded the visitation supervisor to let her take Savanna to a birthday party unescorted, according to case records. The two never returned.In court documents filed in the divorce proceedings, Todd alleged that Barnett drank heavily while she was pregnant with Savanna and that she had a bipolar disorder for which she refused to seek treatment.Over the years, Barnett had been reported spotted in Texas, Australia, Switzerland, South Africa, Belize and Mexico. Nettles' statement gave no details about how Barnett was eventually found, but it specifically thanked the Australian Federal Police for its assistance.Watch US News crime videos on NBCNews.com