2 die after airplanes collide in Alaska
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August 1, 2011, Monday
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TWO small airplanes collided above Alaska on Saturday, with one of the aircraft landing safely after the accident and the other crashing to the ground and burning, killing at least two people on board, authorities said.
The plane that crashed, a Cessna 180, was destroyed by the impact and subsequent fire, Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor said. The second plane, a Cessna single-engine, was able to return to Anchorage International Airport and make an emergency landing after the collision near Trapper Creek.
Alaska State Troopers spokeswoman Megan Peters said that two or three people had died in the crash, and the state medical examiner's office was en route to the site to determine the exact number of people on board when the plane went down.
"It was engulfed in flames on the ground," Peters said of the destroyed plane. "We're seeing if anybody made it out. There's no apparent survivors."
Another collision between two planes in July was hailed as remarkably unusual after all onboard survived uninjured.
The plane that crashed, a Cessna 180, was destroyed by the impact and subsequent fire, Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor said. The second plane, a Cessna single-engine, was able to return to Anchorage International Airport and make an emergency landing after the collision near Trapper Creek.
Alaska State Troopers spokeswoman Megan Peters said that two or three people had died in the crash, and the state medical examiner's office was en route to the site to determine the exact number of people on board when the plane went down.
"It was engulfed in flames on the ground," Peters said of the destroyed plane. "We're seeing if anybody made it out. There's no apparent survivors."
Another collision between two planes in July was hailed as remarkably unusual after all onboard survived uninjured.
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