JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – On June 22, 1955, two Russian MiG 15’s from Siberia shot down a U.S. Navy plane flying a routine maritime patrol over the Bering Sea. It crash-landed on an ice shelf prompting fourteen Guardsmen from the First Scout Battalion to mount a rescue mission saving everyone on board. On July […]
All occupants of a plane crash a half mile offshore of Kokhanok on Iliamna Lake were rescued after the aircraft began taking on water and the passengers and pilot were forced to abandon the aircraft and enter the water. Dispatch at Fairbanks AST received a call reporting the crash at 6:20 pm on Saturday and […]
Alaska State Troopers report that they began receiving 911 calls just after 6:30 pm on Saturday evening reporting that an aircraft went down on the Matanuska River near mile 99 of the Glenn Highway. As they were responding to the scene, people nearby, who saw the plane go down, responded to the river to see […]
JUNEAU, Alaska – Coast Guard aircrews medevaced two people from Dry Bay Airstrip, approximately 30 miles Southeast of Yakutat, after their plane crashed, Tuesday. A Coast Guard Air Station Sitka MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter aircrew arrived on scene and transported two people with critical back injuries to Yakutat, and Yakutat Police Department transported a third person […]