ANCHORAGE (AP) - Improved weather conditions Aug. 11 allowed crews to access the site where a sightseeing plane crashed last week near Ketchikan, killing six people.
Clint Johnson, head of the National Transportation Safety Board’s Alaska division, said the wreckage would be brought to Ketchikan.
A pilot and five passengers died in the crash on Aug. 5. The passengers were off a cruise ship and had taken the flight to nearby Misty Fjords National Monument.
The plane crashed on the side of a mountain in a heavily forested, steep area at 1,800- to 2,000-feet elevation, Johnson has said.
The site is about 22 miles northeast of Ketchikan.
The bodies were recovered Aug. 7, but poor weather delayed retrieval of the plane. NTSB investigators have been working on the investigation of the cause of the accident.
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