1 lifeless after aircraft touchdown on Alaska island went off runway

One particular person died after a commuter airplane went off the tip of a runway whereas touchdown at an airport within the distant Aleutian Islands fishing group of Unalaska, authorities stated Friday.

Alaska State Troopers recognized the sufferer as David Allan Oltman, 38, of Washington state.

The aircraft, operated by Peninsula Airways, or PenAir, left Anchorage round 3:15 p.m. Thursday with 42 individuals on board, together with 39 passengers and three crew members, a press release from the corporate stated. One passenger was a toddler below age 2, stated Clint Johnson, chief of the Alaska area for the Nationwide Transportation Security Board.

The flight landed round 5:40 p.m. and went off the tip of the runway. PenAir is owned by Ravn Air Group and stated it’s cooperating with federal investigators.

“On behalf of PenAir, Ravn Air Group and all our workers all through the corporate, we want to prolong our deepest sympathies and condolences to the household and family members of our passenger who handed away,” Dave Pflieger, president of RavnAir Group, stated in a press release.

Johnson stated a crew of 9 NTSB investigators was anticipated in Anchorage late Friday. Some members would stay in Anchorage whereas others have been anticipated to journey to Unalaska early Saturday, he stated. Moreover, an company investigator from Alaska was anticipated to be on scene because the flight knowledge and cockpit voice recorders have been faraway from the aircraft, he stated.

The town, in a press release, stated responders arrived on the scene inside 5 minutes of the crash. It stated 11 individuals have been taken a neighborhood clinic with accidents starting from minor to essential. That quantity included the person who died and one other one who was flown to Anchorage for medical care.

Metropolis Clerk Marjie Veeder stated she was advised by the top of the native first responders that the flight manifest was 39 individuals on board. Informed of the discrepancy concerning the variety of individuals on the aircraft, Debbie Reinwand, a media contact for PenAir, didn’t touch upon the manifest however reiterated firm statements saying there have been 42 on board.

Regulation enforcement has secured the scene pending the arrival of NTSB investigators, town stated.

Unalaska is about 825 miles (1,330 kilometers) southwest of Anchorage.