One dead after plane crashes into water near Kodiak

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One person has died after a small plane crashed into the water near Kodiak in Alaska on Friday afternoon, Alaska’s News Source reported, citing a spokesperson for the National Transportation Safety Board.

The aircraft, a Cessna 185, went down in Blue Fox Bay at around noon on Friday and became submerged in the water, the safety board said.

Two other people were taken to local hospitals. Their conditions have not been released.

Officers from the National Transportation Safety Board and the Alaska Department of Public Safety were travelling to the scene on Friday afternoon. The cause of the crash has not yet been established, and the story is still developing.

Source: Alaska’s News Source (KTUU).

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