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Few details on why a fighter plane had to stop in Whitehorse yesterday
Details are still unclear as to why a fighter jet had to make an emergency landing at the Whitehorse airport yesterday.
Carly Bohman, a spokesperson for the Department of Highway and Public Works, told the Rush this afternoon “because it was a military aircraft the information is classified and up to the US military’s discretion to provide.”
She provided a few more details on the incident.
“At 3 pm on Tuesday December 13, the Erik Nielsen Whitehorse International Airport responded to an unplanned emergency landing.
Airport operations were not impacted and there was no risk to public safety.”
The Whitehorse Fire Department was called to the airport amidst reports of a plane with a fire on board trying to land.
Pictures on social media show two F-22 jets on the ground at the airport with fire trucks on scene.
