A large, Douglas DC-4 aircraft, has crashed in the Tanana River, near Kallenberg Road, outside of Fairbanks, Alaska. The very old, four-prop plane had just taken off from Fairbanks.
Alaska State Troopers are telling area residents, (all three or four of them) to avoid the area.
The scalable satellite-view map below, shows the area:
IMAGE as seen from Fairbanks Airport:
UPDATE 5:48 PM EDT-
The plane that crashed near Fairbanks is a DC-4 which is operated by Alaska Air Fuel; 2 people on board.
As seen from about two miles away:
"A witness said he heard a loud explosion just before 10 a.m. and saw a plane overhead with an engine on fire. He said he heard what sounded like another explosion and a crash, followed by a large column of dark smoke."
