Air crash occurs near US military Alaska radar station, all 8 people on charter flight killed

(Central News Agency, Anchorage, Alaska, comprehensive foreign news report on the 20th) The U.S. Army Alaska Command said that a charter plane carrying eight people crashed near a remote military radar station in western Alaska today, killing all people on board.

According to reports from Reuters and the Associated Press, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said that the Cessna 441 aircraft operated by the Anchorage charter company Security Aviation crashed west of the Cape Newenham LRRS Airport in Alaska at around 12:15 noon local time.

The spokesman pointed out that the charter flight took off from Anchorage International Airport and was originally scheduled to fly to Cape Nuernham.

The Alaska Command issued a statement stating that the Newingham Point long-range radar station is managed by the Pacific Air Forces Regional Support Center and is part of a network of remote radar stations responsible for tracking aircraft operating in Alaska airspace and along the border.

The statement did not provide specific details of the work performed by these personnel at the time, only calling the aircraft a "civilian contracted aircraft."