{"id":6958,"date":"2017-01-18T09:03:42","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T17:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/2-survive-plane-crash-between-villages-in-southwest-alaska\/"},"modified":"2017-01-18T09:03:42","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T17:03:42","slug":"2-survive-plane-crash-between-villages-in-southwest-alaska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/2-survive-plane-crash-between-villages-in-southwest-alaska\/","title":{"rendered":"2 survive plane crash between villages in southwest Alaska"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ANCHORAGE \u2014 <\/strong>Two people in a small airplane survived when they crashed on a flight between two southwest Alaska villages.<\/p>\n<p>Alaska State Troopers say a Coast Guard helicopter spotted the downed aircraft early Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>The airplane Monday left Dillingham on a flight to Port Heiden but landed in Pilot Point because of bad weather.<\/p>\n<p>The airplane took off again from Pilot Point and crashed.<\/p>\n<p>The Coast Guard sent out a helicopter from Kodiak to search. Ground crews from Pilot Point and Port Heiden also searched.<\/p>\n<p>The helicopter found the wreckage shortly after 5 p.m. and crew members medically evaluated the survivors before transporting them to additional medical care.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities planned to withhold names of the survivors until their families were contacted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANCHORAGE \u2014 Two people in a small airplane survived when they crashed on a flight between two southwest Alaska villages. Alaska State Troopers say a Coast Guard helicopter spotted the downed aircraft early Monday night. The airplane Monday left Dillingham on a flight to Port Heiden but landed in Pilot Point because of bad weather. [&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":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-6958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6958","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=6958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6958"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=6958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}