Alaska State and Wildlife Troopers, the Rescue Coordination Center, MAT SAR and volunteers are out conducting an intensive search for an Anchorage couple who were tentatively last seen on Big Lake on Sunday morning and have not been seen since that time. The family of Vanton and Laverne Pettigen, ages 66 and 64 respectively, called in […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Airmen with the Alaska Air National Guard’s 210th and 212th Rescue Squadrons rescued a pilot of a Piper PA-12 Nov. 1 on a sandbar of the Susitna River parallel to Mile 79 of the Parks Highway after the plane crashed. According to Alaska Air National Guard Staff Sgt. Jeremy Rhodes, […]
A pilot and his trainer crashed west of the Willow Airport on Saturday and were rescued by the Rescue Coordination Center and taken to a local for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries troopers reported. According to the report, 20-year-old Robin C Spaulding and 29-year-old John P Cabaud were practicing night flight operations when their aircraft crashed. Cabaud […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Soldiers with the Alaska Army National Guard’s 1-207 Aviation Battalion rescued three individuals shortly after 10 p.m. Sept. 3 about 20 miles northwest of St. Mary’s after their plane crashed. The Alaska Rescue Coordination Center at JBER was contacted by a commercial air taxi service after the pilot of the […]