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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - An eight-member team from the National Transportation Safety Board took advantage of a narrow weather window Sunday to fly to a remote radar site in western Alaska and survey the scene of a fatal plane crash that killed eight people on Thursday. The flight, chartered by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and operated by Security Aviation, was carrying two Anchorage-based pilots, two USACE employees, and four contractors to the Cape Newenham Long Range Radar Site Airport. NTSB Alaska Regional Office Chief Clint Johnson said wreckage from the twin-engine Cessna Conquest 441 was scattered several hundred feet up the side of a mountain about a quarter mile from the runway. “At this point right now the best way to describe it is highly fragmented and there was a post-crash fire which is indicative of a high-speed event,” Johnson said. Investigators are gathering information about the crash and its possible cause, including interviewing workers at the radar site who heard but didn’t see the plane go down.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - An eight-member team from the National Transportation Safety Board took advantage of a narrow weather window Sunday to fly to a remote radar site in western Alaska and survey the scene of a fatal plane crash that killed eight people on Thursday. The flight, chartered by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and operated by Security Aviation, was carrying two Anchorage-based pilots, two USACE employees, and four contractors to the Cape Newenham Long Range Radar Site Airport. NTSB Alaska Regional Office Chief Clint Johnson said wreckage from the twin-engine Cessna Conquest 441 was scattered several hundred feet up the side of a mountain about a quarter mile from the runway. “At this point right now the best way to describe it is highly fragmented and there was a post-crash fire which is indicative of a high-speed event,” Johnson said. Investigators are gathering information about the crash and its possible cause, including interviewing workers at the radar site who heard but didn’t see the plane go down.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - An eight-member team from the National Transportation Safety Board took advantage of a narrow weather window Sunday to fly to a remote radar site in western Alaska and survey the scene of a fatal plane crash that killed eight people on Thursday. The flight, chartered by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and operated by Security Aviation, was carrying two Anchorage-based pilots, two USACE employees, and four contractors to the Cape Newenham Long Range Radar Site Airport. NTSB Alaska Regional Office Chief Clint Johnson said wreckage from the twin-engine Cessna Conquest 441 was scattered several hundred feet up the side of a mountain about a quarter mile from the runway. “At this point right now the best way to describe it is highly fragmented and there was a post-crash fire which is indicative of a high-speed event,” Johnson said. Investigators are gathering information about the crash and its possible cause, including interviewing workers at the radar site who heard but didn’t see the plane go down.
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