This Thursday there was a plane crash in southeast Alaska, which claimed the lives of 6 people who were traveling on a tourist plane.
According to information from the United States Coast Guard, the plane in which 5 passengers and a pilot were traveling, crashed on Thursday morning and was nothing but until the afternoon when elements of the Sitka Coast Guard Air Station located the remains of the aircraft, without there being any survivors of this accident.
According to the Coast Guard, the incident could have This was caused by the poor visibility in the area, since at the time of the crash there was rain and light fog, as well as moderate winds.
Alaska State Police and the Coast Guard began their search after the aircraft disappeared Thursday morning, alerted in the area by a radio beacon that in Tells the emergency position that automatically provides your location in a distress call.
The distress beacon had placed the aircraft near Ketchikan in the vicinity of the Misty National Monument Fjords , a popular tourist attraction often seen from planes that can take off and land on water.
It was later revealed that the crashed artifact was a seaplane operated by the tourism company Southeast Aviation.
It also transpired that the 5 passengers were traveling as guests aboard a cruise ship of the Holland company America Line called Nieuw Amsterdam, which left Seattle last Saturday to spend 7 days in Alaska.
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