No survivors in Southwest Alaska plane crash with 8 on board
Cape Newenham in 2014. (NOAA ShoreZone)
Eight people died Thursday, Aug. 20 after the charter plane they were flying in crashed on a remote cape in Southwest Alaska.
The civilian-contracted aircraft crashed at the Cape Newenham Long Range Radar Site Airport, roughly 450 miles west of Anchorage, according to a statement from the Alaskan Alaskan North American Aerospace Defense (NORAD) Command Region, Alaskan Command, and 11th Air Force.
Multiple military aircraft responded to the site on Aug. 20
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