SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 1 (Xinhua) -- Three bodies have been found and recovered from an air crash site on the Kenai Peninsula in the U.S. state of Alaska on Sunday, Alaska State Troopers said.
The Troopers said the remains of the aircraft carrying two passengers and the pilot will be transported to the State Medical Examiner Office for identification in Anchorage, the largest city in Alaska.
Local media reported that the twin-engine Piper PA-31-350 aircraft went down on Friday evening into "steep, mountainous terrain" near Jean Lake, west of Cooper Landing on the Kenai Peninsula, about 160 km south of Anchorage.
The plane, which belonged to Security Aviation, an Anchorage-based air charter company, left Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport on Friday to pick up a patient from a medical center in Seward city in southern Alaska, the reports said.
There were no patients on the ill-fated aircraft at the time of the crash.
