A federal aviation official says one of the two pilots aboard an airplane carrying fuel reported there was a fire on the airplane shortly before it crashed and burned outside Fairbanks, Alaska.
Smoke rises after a Douglas C-54 Skymaster plane crashed into the Tanana River outside Fairbanks , Alaska , Tuesday, April 23, 2024. The plane took off in the morning from Fairbanks International Airport. It crashed about 7 miles from there and “slid into a steep hill on the bank of the river where it caught fire,” according to Alaska State Troopers. A fire burns after a Douglas C-54 Skymaster plane crashed into the Tanana River outside Fairbanks , Alaska , Tuesday, April 23, 2024.
The plane departed Fairbanks just before 10 a.m., loaded with 3,200 gallons of heating oil for Kobuk, an Inupiat village of less than 200 people located about 300 miles northwest of Fairbanks.
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