{"id":14903,"date":"2016-04-20T18:52:46","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T01:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/four-dead-in-fiery-airplane-crash\/"},"modified":"2016-04-20T18:52:46","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T01:52:46","slug":"four-dead-in-fiery-airplane-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/four-dead-in-fiery-airplane-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Four dead in fiery airplane crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ANCHORAGE \u2014 <\/strong>The bodies of four people killed when a small airplane crashed Wednesday and burst into flames have been recovered from a heavily wooded area north of Anchorage, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The airplane crashed shortly after takeoff from Birchwood Airport, a small plane facility about 20 miles north of downtown Anchorage. The accident happened just after 9 a.m., police said.<\/p>\n<p>The post-crash fire \u201ctakes away a lot of our evidence,\u201d Shaun Williams, a National Transportation Safety Board investigator, said at a news conference. \u201cThere was quite a bit of fire damage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Among those killed were the pilot, George Kobelnyk, 54, and co-pilot, Christian Bohrer, 20, Anchorage police said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Also killed were the two passengers, Sarah Glaves, 36, and Kyle Braun, 27. Hometowns weren\u2019t immediately available.<\/p>\n<p>The crash initially sparked concerns about a possible wildfire, but Anchorage Fire Chief Denis LeBlanc said the blaze was contained to the location.<\/p>\n<p>Police got a call from a citizen who said they thought they heard a plane crashing near a road.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA few moments later, they observed smoke,\u201d Anchorage police spokeswoman Jennifer Castro said.<\/p>\n<p>The plane\u2019s destination wasn\u2019t immediately known.<\/p>\n<p>The NTSB and the Federal Aviation Administration are investigating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANCHORAGE \u2014 The bodies of four people killed when a small airplane crashed Wednesday and burst into flames have been recovered from a heavily wooded area north of Anchorage, officials said. The airplane crashed shortly after takeoff from Birchwood Airport, a small plane facility about 20 miles north of downtown Anchorage. The accident happened just [&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-14903","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\/14903","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=14903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14903"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=14903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}