When an airplane carrying former Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska crashed into a mountainside near Dillingham, Alaska, on August 9, 2010, the Safety Board launched a nine-member go-team from Washington, DC, to investigate the accident. 

The accident airplane, an amphibious float-equipped de Havilland DHC-3T Turbine Otter, was transporting eight sport fishermen to a remote fishing camp. When the airplane did not arrive at the camp, an aerial search was launched.  The wreckage was eventually discovered in an area of steep, mountainous, tree-covered terrain, northeast of Aleknagik, Alaska.  Senator Stevens, the airline transport pilot, and three other passengers died at the scene, and four passengers sustained serious injuries.

The first NTSB investigator to arrive on scene was Larry Lewis, a regional investigator from the Anchorage office.  The headquarters go-team, including the IIC Clint Johnson, from the Anchorage office and Chairman Hersman, arrived in Dillingham at noon on August 10, after traveling for nearly 10 hours.   Poor weather conditions prevented the team from reaching the accident site until the following day. The accident site, which was situated at the 900 foot level of the Muklung Hills in heavy vegetation, was only accessible to investigators by foot after being dropped in the local vicinity by helicopter.    

Several members of the team stayed in Dillingham and the remaining members established a command post in Anchorage. 

In addition to the IIC, Chairman Hersman and Larry Lewis, the other members of the NTSB team were: Tom Zoeller; Tom Little, Operations Group Chairman; Malcolm Brenner, Human Factors; Mitch Garber, Medical; Bob Swaim, Airworthiness; Mark George, Survival Factors; Mike Richards, Weather; Elias Kontanis, Transportation Disaster Assistance; and Terry Williams, Public Affairs.