All 4 Dead Aboard Plane After Weekend Crash Near Runway in Rural Alaska

All 4 Dead Aboard Plane After Weekend Crash Near Runway in Rural Alaska
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The Associated Press
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska—The weekend crash of a plane roughly a half-mile from a runway near the southwest Alaska community of St. Mary’s killed all four occupants on board the aircraft, authorities said.

Alaska State Troopers said they received a report of an overdue aircraft around 11:15 p.m. Sunday from the Alaska Rescue Coordination Center. Troopers responding to the plane’s last known location found the wreckage and the bodies of four men, the agency said. The names of the dead were not immediately released.