 Flight 8 , a Douglas C @-@ 47A ( NC91006 ) , was on routing Homer , Alaska @-@ Kenai , Alaska when the plane struck the side of Ptarmigan Head 9 miles ( 14 km ) east of the center of the airway to Kenai . Of the six passengers on board , there were five fatalities . The cause was determined to be the pilot straying off the designated airway . 
