BETHEL, Alaska (AP) - A small commercial plane carrying two pilots and no passengers crashed and burned Tuesday night near Bethel in southwest Alaska, authorities said.
Alaska State Troopers spokeswoman Megan Peters said late Tuesday night that no survivors had been located and no fatalities had been confirmed.
Troopers flew to the scene by helicopter after the plane was reported overdue and a local pilot spotted burning wreckage, Peters said.
“At approximately 6:30 p.m. (Tuesday) a Cessna 208 operated by Hageland Aviation crashed near Bethel, Alaska,” Ravn Alaska’s marketing director, Steve Smith, said in an email. “The flight was a training flight with two pilots on board and no passengers.”
Hageland is gathering information and cooperating with local, state and federal authorities, Smith added.
Hageland Aviation is part of the Ravn Alaska, Smith said.
National Transportation Safety Board investigator Clint Johnson said his office would send an investigator to Bethel.
Bethel is about 425 miles west of Anchorage.
The NTSB is also investigating the Nov. 29 crash of another Hageland Aviation Cessna 208.
Four people were killed and six injured in the crash of that commuter flight in southwest Alaska southeast of the village of Saint Marys.
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