Small plane hits building in downtown Anchorage, at least 1 dead
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A small airplane clipped an office building before crashing into a commercial building in downtown Anchorage on Tuesday, killing at least one person on board, The Associated Press reports. The building the plane hit caught fire afterward, although the Anchorage Assistant Fire Chief Alex Boyd said there were no injuries on the ground. It is still unknown if there was another person aboard the plane.
"[The engine] didn't sound like it was in trouble, but the weather was pretty windy. I said to myself, it's not good weather to be flying in," witness Kent Haina said. Haina, a 747 captain, saw the plane go down when he was taking out his garbage around 6:20 a.m.
The plane also struck a transformer, and several areas reported power outages as a result of the crash.
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