<6 style = "text-align: justify;"> All 6 people on board the tour plane died Thursday when the plane crashed in southeastern Alaska, the US Coast Guard said.
Rescue services in the northernmost state of the United States responded to the alarm around 11:20 a.m. (1920 GMT) 8 miles (13 km) northeast of Ketchikan, Alaska. in the Coast Guard statement.
“The crew of the MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter from the Coast Guard airfield in Sitka found the wreckage at 14:37 and dropped two rescue swimmers who did not report the survivors,” – is in the message.
According to the Coast Guard, the helicopter said it noticed debris on the ridge.
The de Havilland Beaver hydraulic plane – a plane that can be supported by floats on the water – carried 5 passengers and a pilot, took off from the park of the national monument “Foggy Fjords”.
The passengers were tourists on the cruise liner Holland America Line Nieuw Amsterdam, the company said on Twitter.
“We can confirm that the seaplane, which was carrying 5 guests from New Amsterdam, crashed in Ketchikan, and no one survived,” the statement said. / p>
“It was an independent tour that is not sold by Holland America Line. Our thoughts and prayers with the family and friends of the victims. “
Several travel companies offer walks along the fjords around Ketchikan, which are surrounded by dense forests and almost vertical cliffs.
Many of the tours include landing a seaplane, and in recent years there have been several accidents in the area.
In May 2019, 6 people died in a collision in the air of two seaplanes carrying passengers from a cruise liner reconnaissance expedition.
In 2015, an Otter plane crashed into a granite rock, killing all 9 on board, near a lake near a fog of fjords.
And in 2007, 5 people died in a crash of the Beaver seaplane with tourists in the same area.