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Charter plane crash kills 8 near remote radar site in western Alaska, military says
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A charter aircraft carrying eight people crashed on Thursday at the Cape Newenham Long Range Radar Site Airport in western Alaska, killing everyone onboard, the U.S. military said. The site is about 450 miles (725 km) west of Anchorage. U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Robert Davis, commander of Alaskan Command/Alaskan NORAD/Eleventh Air Force, called it a “devastating loss” and said the radar installation is part of a network that tracks aircraft in Alaska’s airspace and along its borders. Davis did not describe what the passengers were doing, calling the aircraft “civilian-contracted.” NTSB’s Clint Johnson said earlier that two pilots and six passengers were aboard and that it likely crashed during an early-afternoon approach to Cape Newenham.
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