6 People Dead After Sightseeing Plane Crash in Alaska |#7hubent News

 6 People Dead After Sightseeing Plane Crash in Alaska |#7hubent News

 6 People Dead After Sightseeing Plane Crash in Alaska |#7hubent News

Six people have been killed after a sightseeing plane crashed in southeast Alaska on Aug.5, the U.S. Coast Guard said.

The plane’s emergency alert beacon was activated at around 11:20 a.m. when the plane crashed in the area of Misty Fjords National Monument, near Ketchikan, the Coast Guard said in a statement.

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The Coast Guard, Alaska State Troopers, U. S. Forest Service, and Ketchikan Volunteer Rescue Squad (KVRS) responded to the incident, eight miles northeast of Ketchikan, Alaska, on Thursday.

An MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew from Coast Guard Air Station Sitka located the wreckage at 2:37 p.m. and lowered two rescue swimmers who reported no survivors, the Coast Guard said.

Source – NTD