6 killed in sightseeing plane crash in U.S. Alaska
A sightseeing plane crashed Thursday in the U.S. state of Alaska, killing all six people on board, including the pilot and five passengers.
The wreckage was found in a steep mountainous area around 12 miles (about 19 km) northeast of the city of Ket-chikan, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.
The U.S. Coast Guard received an emergency signal from the plane around 11:20 a.m. local time (1920 GMT), according to a report by the Anchorage Daily News.
The crashed plane, a single-engine De Havill and DHC-2 Beaver, scheduled its flight from Misty Fjords National Monument in the Tongass National Forest to Ketchikan, according to the Federal Aviation Admini-stration.
Xinhua