{"id":63586,"date":"2025-07-24T06:17:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T06:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deshmediabd.com\/?p=63586"},"modified":"2025-07-24T06:17:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T06:17:22","slug":"moose-meat-and-antlers-caused-alaska-plane-crash-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/?p=63586","title":{"rendered":"Moose meat and antlers caused Alaska plane crash: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Too much moose meat and a set of antlers strapped to a wing brought a small plane down in Alaska, killing its pilot, according to a crash report published this week.<\/p>\n<p>Eugene Peltola died hours after his aircraft &#8212; carrying over 500 pounds (225 kilograms) of moose meat &#8212; plunged into mountains near St Mary&#8217;s in southwest Alaska in September 2023.<\/p>\n<p>A report released Tuesday by the US National Transportation Safety Board found the hefty meat cargo meant the plane was more than 100 pounds over its takeoff weight when it left a remote airstrip in the Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge.<\/p>\n<p>The presence of a pair of moose antlers on the right wing strut of the plane &#8212; a common practice in Alaska &#8212; would likely have made flight even trickier, the report said, because of their effect on aerodynamics.<\/p>\n<p>Clint Johnson, the Alaska Region Chief for NTSB, was cited by local media as saying there were three main factors that contributed to the crash of the Piper PA 18-150 Super Cub.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/news-flash\/295186\">\u09ac\u09bf\u09b8\u09cd\u09a4\u09be\u09b0\u09bf\u09a4<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Too much moose meat and a set of antlers strapped to a wing brought a small plane down in Alaska, killing its pilot, according to a crash report published this week. Eugene Peltola died hours after his aircraft &#8212; carrying over 500 pounds (225 kilograms) of moose meat &#8212; plunged into mountains near St Mary&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-4","category-14"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63588,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63586\/revisions\/63588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}