Updated at 12:30 p.m.
Emergency crews from the Anchorage Police Department, Anchorage Fire Department and investigators are on the scene of a plane crash site at Beach Lake Road in Birchwood.
It’s unclear if the plane took off from the Birchwood Airport, though the crash site is approximately one mile away.
Officials on-site say the body recovery process has begun.
KTUU-TV reports that there were four fatalities in the crash.
Reports from the scene depict a widespread debris field littered with the tops of broken-off birch trees. Emergency vehicles were driven to the crash site on a muddy trail.
A NTSB investigator is on scene.
Emergency crews responded to the crash at approximately 9 a.m.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
APTI Reporter-Producer Ellen Lockyer started her radio career in the late 1980s, after a stint at bush Alaska weekly newspapers, the Copper Valley Views and the Cordova Times. When the Exxon Valdez ran aground in Prince William Sound, Valdez Public Radio station KCHU needed a reporter, and Ellen picked up the microphone.
Since then, she has literally traveled the length of the state, from Attu to Eagle and from Barrow to Juneau, covering Alaska stories on the ground for the AK show, Alaska News Nightly, the Alaska Morning News and for Anchorage public radio station, KSKA
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