Dave Hedgers and Aaron Fryer were found dead inside a Taylorcraft BC-12 plane that crashed into Six Mile Lake near Nondalton, Alaska, about 200 miles southwest of Anchorage
Initial investigations indicate that the failed engine “separated from the wing about 100 feet above the ground and eventually came to rest on the frozen Tanana River.”
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A federal aviation official says one of the two pilots of an airplane that was laden with fuel reported a fire on board shortly before the aircraft crashed and burned