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The Air Force says a military C-17 cargo plane crashed on Wednesday with four people aboard at Elmendorf Air Force Base in Anchorage.

Air Force Captain Uriah Orland says the condition of the four crewmembers was not immediately known. When asked if there were deaths, he did not answer.

The plane was from the 3rd Wing, based at Elmendorf, and Orland said it was on a local training run.

The worst crash to occur at Elmendorf happened in 1995, when an AWACS plane struck a flock of geese; 24 airmen perished in that accident.

Elmendorf is a large Air Force installation, with more than 1.5 million acres of maneuver area, airspace ranges that are among the largest in the world and four deep-water ports.

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UPDATE: Air Force officials have confirmed that the four crewmembers on board the C-17 have died. Read more at CBSNews.com.