KENAI — A plane crashed into utility wires on Thursday evening in Sterling, prompting Homer Electric Association to create a temporary power outage for roughly 1,300 utility customers in the area.<\/p>\n
The pilot, an adult man who was the plane’s sole occupant, was uninjured during the crash, which is being investigated by the National Transportation Safety Board, according to a dispatch from the Alaska Department of Public Safety.<\/p>\n
Per that dispatch, Alaska State Troopers were notified of the crash at around 5:45 p.m. on Thursday. Troopers who responded to the area found a Cub Crafters Carbon Cub EX3 plane that had sustained “significant damage.”<\/p>\n
Sterling resident Alisha Joe, who saw the crash site on Thursday evening, said Friday that the plane crashed on Fontaine Avenue, off of Robinson Loop Road.<\/p>\n
HEA said in updates shared to social media on Thursday around 6 p.m. that it deenergized a circuit in Sterling after the plane crashed into utility lines, but the plane was not tangled in HEA wires. Power had been restored for about 1,000 customers by 7:15 p.m. after HEA crews restored power to the circuit while conducting repairs. Power was restored to all members by 8:30 p.m., HEA said.<\/p>\n
• Reach reporter Ashlyn O’Hara at ashlyn.ohara@peninsulaclarion.com.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Alaska State Troopers were notified of the crash at around 5:45 p.m. on Thursday <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":677,"featured_media":99111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[110,792,230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-99110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news","tag-news","tag-plane-crash","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99110","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\/677"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99110"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=99110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}