ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) – All eight people aboard a charter aircraft that crashed near a remote radar site in Western Alaska were killed, the U.S. military said Thursday, according to The Associated Press.
The aircraft went down at Cape Newenham Long Range Radar Site Airport, about 450 miles west of Anchorage, the AP reported.
“This is a devastating loss for our military family and the communities we serve,” U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Robert Davis, commander of Alaskan Command, the Alaskan North American Aerospace Defense Command Region and Eleventh Air Force, said in a statement to the AP…