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Five dead in Alaska plane crash

By Zach Halaschak
Published February 8, 2020 1:28am ET
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Five dead in Alaska plane crash
In this photo taken May 14, 2009 and provided by the University of Washington, is the deployment of a hydrophone in Icy Bay, Alaska. Glaciologist Erin Pettit began a research project to find out what calving glacier ice sounded like to a humpback whale. The sound of the ice in the water turned out to be more interesting. Acoustic research in Alaska’s Icy Bay and other glacier ice-filled waters found that the fizz created by the release of air bubbles under high pressure makes fjords with glacier icebergs the noisiest places in the ocean. | (Jeffrey Nystuen/AP)

Five people were killed when a commuter plane crashed in rural western Alaska.

The Yute Air flight was traveling from Bethel to Kipnuk and had one pilot and four passengers when it crashed about 12 miles southwest of Tuntutuliak on Thursday afternoon, according to a report by the Alaska State Troopers.

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