The U.S. Coast Guard is on the scene the place a Dehavilland DHC-3 fixed-wing single engine aircraft crashed close to Yakutat, Alaska, on Might 24, 2022.
AP
An plane crashed whereas making an attempt to land on a rural Alaska airstrip lined by timber, injuring all 4 folks on board, officers mentioned Wednesday.
Three folks critically damage in Tuesday’s crash at Dry Bay airstrip have been despatched to hospitals in Anchorage. A fourth particular person with minor accidents was handled within the close by southeast Alaska neighborhood of Yakutat, the Coast Guard mentioned in an announcement.
The names of these injured weren’t instantly launched.
The crash occurred about 3 p.m. Tuesday because the Yakutat Coastal Airways constitution flight was making an attempt to land on the airstrip, mentioned Clint Johnson, head of the Alaska division of the Nationwide Transportation Security Board. The flight had originated from Yakutat.
The de Havilland DHC-3 fixed-wing single-engine airplane crashed wanting the runway in tree-covered terrain, Johnson mentioned. The NTSB will examine the reason for the crash.
The Dry Bay airstrip is about 30 miles southeast of Yakutat.
The Coast Guard was knowledgeable of the crash by an emergency locator transmitter alert and by calls from the general public.
A Coast Guard helicopter from Sitka arrived on scene and took two folks with “essential again points” to Yakutat, the Coast Guard assertion mentioned. One other particular person with respiratory points was taken to Yakutat by that metropolis’s police division.
The Coast Guard then flew all three to Anchorage for remedy in an HC-130 Hercules airplane from Kodiak.
Tanya Hutchins, who described herself as an proprietor of Yakutat Coastal Airways, mentioned she was not able to remark concerning the crash when reached by phone Wednesday.
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