{"id":1589,"date":"2026-08-21T03:49:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T03:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/?p=1589"},"modified":"2026-08-21T03:49:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T03:49:15","slug":"charter-plane-carrying-8-crashes-near-remote-radar-site-in-western-alaska-ntsb-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/?p=1589","title":{"rendered":"Charter plane carrying 8 crashes near remote radar site in western Alaska, NTSB says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"prism-article-body\">\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \"><span class=\"oyrPY qlwaB AGxeB  \">JUNEAU, Alaska &#8212; <\/span>A charter plane carrying eight people crashed Thursday near a remote radar site in western Alaska, a federal official said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Clint Johnson, the National Transportation Safety Board\u2019s Alaska region chief, said two pilots and six passengers were on board. He did not immediately have details on their status.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The plane took off from Anchorage and is believed to have crashed early Thursday afternoon on approach to Cape Newenham, he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The information received so far is preliminary, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The Alaska Rescue Coordination Center said it launched a search and rescue mission after receiving a report of an \u201caircraft incident\u201d near the Cape Newenham Long Range Radar Site. It said additional information would be released as it became available and did not respond to questions. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/US\/wireStory\/charter-plane-carrying-8-crashes-remote-radar-site-135827465\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JUNEAU, Alaska &#8212; A charter plane carrying eight people crashed Thursday near a remote radar site in western Alaska, a federal official said. Clint Johnson, the National Transportation Safety Board\u2019s Alaska region chief, said two pilots and six passengers were on board. He did not immediately have details on their status. The plane took off&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}