Two people were critically injured after PenAir flight 3286 went off the end of the runway at the airport in Unalaska, in the Aleutian Islands off the coast of Alaska.
that it had been notified at that a commercial aircraft was off the runway at approximately 6 p.m. The department said the airport has been closed as rescue and fire personnel work at the scene.that he couldn't immediately confirm if anyone had died.
"We've got a major investigation going here and there's all sorts of rumors going around," he told the television station."We're trying to get an investigator down, and the rest of the team will be coming from Washington, D.C." PenAir, which is owned by Ravn Air Group, said it is fully cooperating with the NTSB's investigation."Our thoughts and prayers go out to all of our passengers and crew, and the family members of everyone with loves ones on this flight," PenAir CEO Dave Pflieger said in a statement toPenAir operates the route from Anchorage to Dutch Harbor, which is home to one of the country's biggest fishing ports, in a codeshare agreement with partner airline Alaska Airlines.
Stock photo: Dutch Harbor, Alaska. A PenAir plane heading to Dutch Harbor, home to one of the country's biggest fishing ports, went off the runaway in Unalaska, Alaska.
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