05-01-2016 02:39 via alaskapublic.org

Pilot in Alaska crash took plane without permission

An organization that owns a small plane that crashed into two downtown Anchorage office buildings says the pilot didn’t seek authorization to use the search-and-rescue aircraft and took it without permission.
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A piece of the wreckage of a plane crash in downtown Anchorage. (Photo by Zachariah Hughes, KSKA – Anchorage)
Civil Air Patrol national spokeswoman Julie DeBardelaben said today that Pilot Doug Demarest did not make a request to fly, as required by the organizatio
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