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Tue, Aug 09, 2016

Planes Collide On Landing At Wasilla, AK

No One On Board Either Plane Suffered Serious Injuries

To airplanes were involved in a collision on a runway in Wasilla, AK Friday afternoon when they tried to land on the same runway.

Both airplanes, a Cessna 210 and a converted turboprop de Havilland Beaver were badly damaged in the collision, but the two people on board each airplane escaped serious injuries.

The Alaska Dispatch News reports that the Cessna was being flown by a student pilot with a certified instructor on board. The Beaver is registered to former Alaska Attorney General Charlie Cole of Fairbanks, and was marked a "Fly Denali" logo. The company conducts sightseeing tours and supports climbers at Denali Park. Cole was not flying the plane at the time of the accident, according to family members, and no one else was willing to comment to the paper about the flight.

A friend of the pilot told ADN that the plane had taken off from his private airstrip in Wasilla and had stopped for fuel at the municipal airport.

Ray Block, the owner of Ray's Aircraft Service at Wasilla Airport said that the heard the accident occur and looked out on the runway to see the two airplanes on the runway.

Witnesses told Block that one aircraft had been flying a right traffic pattern and one had been in a left traffic pattern.

The accident closed the airport for much of Friday afternoon.

FMI: www.ntsb.gov

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