A downed aircraft, a Piper PA-18A closed Spenard Road for a short time on Sunday, Anchorage police report. The single-engine aircraft on skis was forced to make an emergency landing in front of the Marriott Hotel near the Lake Hood Seaplane Base. The pilot, who suffered minor injuries in the mishap, reported an in-flight emergency […]
Leaders at the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska Fairbanks delivered strong support of Alaska as an aerospace state in remarks Wednesday to the Alaska Senate Labor and Commerce Committee. Lt. Gov. Kevin Meyer had announced that Wednesday, March 17, 2021, was Aerospace Day at the Alaska State Capitol. Alaska’s recognized leadership in the […]
The Alaska Rescue Coordination Center was notified at 11:41 that a Cessna 185 crashed 13 miles northeast of Chitna when the aircraft’s Emergency Locator Transmitter was set of, troopers report. The RCC immediately responded to the remote location and located the crash site along a wooded slope but would find no survivors. Alaska State Troopers […]
The National Transportation Board announced that the toxicology report on Charles Weimer, the pilot of the August 4th crash intoGoat Mountain confirms what the NTSB suspected and Weimer had a reported five and a half times the legal limit of alcohol in his system at the time of the crash. “We had some indicators […]
The aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) departs Apra Harbor and operates in the Philippine Sea May 21, 2020, following an extended visit to Guam in the midst of the COVID-19 global pandemic. Theodore Roosevelt is underway conducting carrier qualifications during a deployment to the Indo-Pacific. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist […]
After receiving a report of a downed aircraft near Friday Creek in the Palmer area, AST along with Butte Fire, Central EMS and Mat-Su Dive team responded to the scene on Tuesday evening to conduct a rescue and aircraft recovery operation. The different entities arrived at the scene around 7:30 pm on Monday evening […]
Despite decreased commercial air carrier services, Troopers will still get to calls for help across Alaska To most people throughout the United States, traditional law enforcement response usually involves an officer responding to a call for service in a police car. You know- a marked patrol car with the city or state name proudly […]
Alaska State Troopers divulged on Thursday that the State Medical Examiner’s office in Anchorage has revealed the identities of the passengers in the fatal Yute Air crash 12 miles southwest of Tuntutukliak that occurred on February 6th. The flight, a Piper PA-32R Cherokee, had been traveling from Bethel to Kipnuk one hundred miles distant […]