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Plane Crash South of Bethel

November 07, 2011|Mike Ross | Channel 2 News

There was a plane crash Monday night in Southwest Alaska, but initial reports say everyone walked away.

It happened near the Kwigillingok airstrip, south of Bethel, at about 6:30pm.

Clint Johnson with the National Transportation Safety Board says the aircraft was a Cessna 207, operated by Hageland-Era aviation.   

People in the village tell Channel 2 News they saw the plane take off, then it banked to the left and went down. The aircraft apparently hit a frozen pond, bounced up and flipped over.

The NTSB says there were six people on board. All of them survived, although some suffered what are being described as *non* life-threatening injuries.


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