{"id":356325,"date":"2026-08-20T21:57:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T02:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/charter-plane-carrying-8-crashes-near-remote-radar-site-in-western-alaska-ntsb-says"},"modified":"2026-08-20T21:57:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T02:57:15","slug":"charter-plane-carrying-8-crashes-near-remote-radar-site-in-western-alaska-ntsb-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/charter-plane-carrying-8-crashes-near-remote-radar-site-in-western-alaska-ntsb-says","title":{"rendered":"Constitution airplane carrying 8 crashes close to distant radar website 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, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":356328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4901,20811,32533,13352,32532,32531,32534,32535,13353,6577,32536],"class_list":["post-356325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-alaska","tag-anchorage","tag-area-chief","tag-aviation-in-the-united-states","tag-cape-newenham","tag-clint-johnson","tag-federal-official","tag-juneau","tag-national-transportation-safety-board","tag-nationwide-transportation-security-board","tag-western-alaska"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356325"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":356327,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356325\/revisions\/356327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}