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2008/10/01

Cessna Fireball on Anchorage Street



Correction
The passengers were a pilot and his wife. Killed were Thomas Blake, 55, and his wife, Paulette Blake, 64, not mother and son as the report announced.

What: single-engine Cessna 206 built in 1968 but with s a current air-worthiness certificate
Where: ANCHORAGE, Alaska near Merrill Field airport in a neighborhood on 8th street
When: Wednesday October 1, 2008
Who:
Why: Pilot reported power loss at 11:41 a.m. The plane lost power shortly after take-off, snapping power lines, banked to the left and clipped the top of the empty City Electric building at Eighth Avenue and Orca Street before crashing. The wreckage was destroyed on impact and also from a post-accident fire.
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