The Ketchikan Volunteer Rescue Squad and a Temsco Helicopter responded to the scene of a float plane crash in the Ketchikan area after Alaska State Troopers received multiple calls shortly after 2 pm on Tuesday reporting the incident.

Callers reported the float plane accident 20 miles to the north of Ketchikan at Jordan Lake. When arriving at the area, rescuers found that the pilot, identified as 58-year-old Billy Rusk of Poplar Grove, “was cold and wet, but otherwise unhurt,” the trooper dispatch reported.

Rusk was transported from the lake to nearby Heckman cabin, on Heckman Lake, a more accessible location, “where KVRS aircraft and medics were standing by.” The KVRS aircraft transported Rusk to Ketchikan, where he refused further transport to the hospital and reported no injuries.

The trooper dispatch reports that Rusk’s aircraft remains at the lake and will be retrieved later by Rusk.

The National Transportation Safety Board was notified of the incident.[xyz-ihs snippet=”Adsense-responsive”]

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