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- A pilot and a passenger are dead after a Taquan Air Beaver floatplane crashed in southeast Alaska near Ketchikan on Monday afternoon, according to a press release from Ketchikan Gateway Borough.
- The circumstances that led to the crash - the second in seven days - are not yet public, and names of the victims have not yet been released.
- One week ago, on May 13, two sightseeing planes collided midair near Ketchikan - a popular desitation for tourists and cruise ships - killing six people.
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A pilot and a passenger are dead after a Taquan Air Beaver floatplane crashed in southeast Alaska near Ketchikan on Monday afternoon, according to a press release from Ketchikan Gateway Borough. There were no others on board the plane.
The circumstances that led to the crash - the second in seven days - were not yet known, and names of the victims have not yet been released.
This crash happened in Metlatkatla Harbor at around 4 p.m. local time, and 15 members of the volunteer fire department responded.
One week ago, on May 13, two sightseeing planes collided midair near Ketchikan - a popular desitation for tourists and cruise ships - killing six people.
One of the two planes, an Otter, was operated by Taquan Air. The other, a Beaver, was operated by Mountain Air. Everyone on board the Beaver plane was killed, and one passenger from the Otter was killed, CNN reported.
Investigators from the National
In a Monday night tweet, the NTSB responded to the most recent incident.
"NTSB dispatched investigators from Anchorage Regional Office to investigate May 20, 2019, crash of Taquan Air Havilland DHC-2," the agency tweeted. "While owned by same operator involved in May 13, 2019, mid-air collision, plane was not on sightseeing flight, was a commuter flight."