The Federal Aviation Administration started disciplinary action against the pilot, John Morris Jr., National Transportation Safety Board investigator Mark Ward told The Associated Press.

A pilot and his two young daughters survived on the wing of a plane for about 12 hours after it crashed and was partially submerged in an icy Alaska lake, then were rescued after being spotted by a good Samaritan.

It wasn't immediately clear how old the daughters are but the Alaska ... the ice with the tail refrozen and if that tail hadn't refrozen, it would have sunk." The 60,000-acre Tustumena Lake ...