A cargo plane crashed into a mountain Sunday afternoon in Alaska's Denali National Park , killing around three people and sparking a small wildfire after the aircraft disintegrated and burst into flames. According to the National Park Service , the plane crashed into the southern slope of Mount Healy, and the crash was just 200 yards away from Denali's only road. Though George Clare, a man from Las Vegas who witnessed the crash, thought the plane looked like a military aircraft, US military officials have stated that none of their planes were involved. Clare has said that the plane was "... a military khaki green kind of color. It was propeller-driven. It was a fixed wing aircraft and it had kind of a flat underbelly." The Federal Aviation Administration , which tracks civil flying accidents, later circulated a report that identified the aircraft as a Fairchild C-123K , and echoed the initial reports that all three on board died, including one passenger. The crash came just four days after another major airplane crash in the state, when a military cargo plane crashed a minute after taking off at the Elmendorf Air Force Base in Anchorage . The crash killed four people onboard who were training for an airshow.
A cargo plane crashed into a mountain Sunday afternoon in Alaska's , killing around three people and sparking a small wildfire after the aircraft disintegrated and burst into flames. According to the , the plane crashed into the southern slope of Mount Healy, and the crash was just 200 yards away from Denali's only road. Though George Clare, a man from Las Vegas who witnessed the crash, thought the plane looked like a military aircraft, US military officials have stated that none of their planes were involved. Clare has said that the plane was "... a military khaki green kind of color. It was propeller-driven. It was a fixed wing aircraft and it had kind of a flat underbelly." The , which tracks civil flying accidents, later circulated a report that identified the aircraft as a , and echoed the initial reports that all three on board died, including one passenger. The crash came just four days after another major airplane crash in the state, when a military cargo plane crashed a minute after taking off at the in . The crash killed four people onboard who were training for an airshow.
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