Instructor and student injured in Willow plane crash

(KTUU)
Published: Sep. 9, 2018 at 12:22 PM AKDT
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Alaska State Troopers say two people were injured in a plane crash west of the Willow Airport Saturday night.

According to a daily dispatch, the 20-year-old pilot, identified as Robin C Spaulding, of Talkeenta, was learning night flight operations from the passenger, John P Cabaud, 29, of Talkeenta. “While performing a training maneuver the plane crashed,” troopers wrote.

Both Cabaud and Spaulding were injured and taken to a hospital with injuries troopers said are “not considered life threatening.”

AST wrote the National Transportation Safety Board has been notified about the crash.