Photo courtesy Alaska State Troopers
A Britten-Norman BN-2 Islander crashed while taking off at Kodiak airport on Monday afternoon, Mar. 15, 2010.
The three occupants aboard the aircraft, including the pilot, reportedly survived the crash
Posted on 03/15/2010 5:24:04 PM PDT by skeptoid
A passenger plane crashed into trees off the end of the Kodiak airport runway this afternoon, trapping its three occupants as emergency crews worked to extract them from the wreckage entangled in trees, according to state officials.
(Excerpt) Read more at adn.com ...
Peters later said that one of the people had been removed.
"So far, two people are still stuck inside," Peters said about 2:15 p.m.
Two C207's, a Piper Lance and a Britten Norman Islander.
Click the destinations at the top of the page for nifty aerial pics of the runways on Kodiak.
I am a big Alaska aviation fan. Hope all ends well in this one.
Photo courtesy Alaska State Troopers
A Britten-Norman BN-2 Islander crashed while taking off at Kodiak airport on Monday afternoon, Mar. 15, 2010.
The three occupants aboard the aircraft, including the pilot, reportedly survived the crash
Awesome, they all survived. Can’t beat that.
Well, as I used to say... any landing you can swim away from...
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