{"id":10261,"date":"2016-01-13T22:40:58","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T06:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/ntsb-plane-was-destroyed-after-hitting-anchorage-building\/"},"modified":"2016-01-13T22:40:58","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T06:40:58","slug":"ntsb-plane-was-destroyed-after-hitting-anchorage-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/ntsb-plane-was-destroyed-after-hitting-anchorage-building\/","title":{"rendered":"NTSB: Plane was destroyed after hitting Anchorage building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ANCHORAGE \u2014 <\/strong>The National Transportation Safety Board says wreckage from a small airplane that struck a downtown Anchorage building last month was incinerated in the post-crash fire.<\/p>\n<p>The NTSB released the preliminary report Wednesday into the Dec. 29 crash that killed the pilot, Doug Demarest. A family spokeswoman said his death was a suicide.<\/p>\n<p>The plane struck the building that houses the law firm in which Demarest\u2019s wife is a partner. The impact severed the plane\u2019s right wing, which continued into an adjacent building. There were no other injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The NTSB report drew no conclusions about the cause of the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses saw the Cessna 172 flying low over Anchorage before striking the building. Demarest had taken the Civil Air Patrol search-and-rescue plane without authorization from a nearby airport.<\/p>\n<p>Anchorage FBI spokeswoman Staci Feger-Pellessier says the agency is awaiting autopsy reports to conclude its investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANCHORAGE \u2014 The National Transportation Safety Board says wreckage from a small airplane that struck a downtown Anchorage building last month was incinerated in the <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/post\/\">post<\/a>-crash fire. The NTSB released the preliminary report Wednesday into the Dec. 29 crash that killed the pilot, Doug Demarest. A family spokeswoman said his death was a suicide. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-10261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10261"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=10261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}