A charter Cessna 441 carrying eight people—two pilots and six passengers—crashed on 20 August 2026 near a remote radar site at Cape Newenham in western Alaska, killing all aboard. The aircraft was chartered by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and operated by Security Aviation.
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Charter plane carrying 8 crashes near remote radar site in western Alaska, NTSB says AP News
The U.S. military says a charter aircraft carrying eight people crashed at a remote radar site in western Alaska on Thursday, killing all on board.
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A charter plane carrying eight people, two pilots and six passengers, crashed near a remote radar site in western Alaska, an NTSB official said.
Eight killed in charter plane crash near remote site in western Alaska Reuters
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The plane took off from Anchorage and is believed to have crashed early Thursday afternoon on approach to Cape Newenham, an NTSB official said.
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Aug 20 - Eight people died after a charter plane crashed at a remote military radar site in western Alaska on Thursday, the U.S. military's Alaskan Command said.
A charter plane carrying eight people crashed near a remote radar site in western Alaska, the Associated Press said on Thursday, citing the National Transportation Safety Board.
😞 www.alaskasnewssource.com/2026/08/21/r... A charter plane crashed Thursday afternoon with multiple people on board near a remote airport in Western Alaska, according to a federal investigating authority.
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A small Cessna 441 plane operated by a private charter company crashed near a US military-managed radar site in Alaska. All on board have reportedly died.
Seems that Duffy is having problems with keeping planes in the sky... www.cnn.com/2026/08/21/u... A charter plane crashed near a remote radar site in western Alaska, killing all 8 people on board, federal aviation and military officials said.
It is unclear why the civilian-contracted plane was at the radar site on Alaska's south-west coast.
Charter plane crashes in western Alaska, killing all eight on board | Read full article at san.com/cc/charter-p... The crash happened near the Cape Newenham Long Range Radar Site Airport, about 450 miles west of Anchorage.
A small plane chartered by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has crashed in western Alaska, killing all eight people aboard.
In a statement to Global News, the NTSB said that it has "opened an investigation into Thursday's crash of a Cessna 441 airplane operated by Security Aviation as an air taxi flight from Anchorage to Cape Newenham, Alaska." globalnews.ca/news/1202992... Two pilots and six passengers had been on board, according to Clint Johnson, the National Transportation Safety Board's Alaska region chief.
Eight people died after a plane crashed in western Alaska. Errol Barnett reports.