A Cessna 180 was practicing touch and gos on a remote gravel bar 23 miles north of Gustavus on Wednesday evening when the aircraft hit a dip on the gravel bar and the aircraft suffered a prop strike, flipping the aircraft over. Ketchikan State Troopers received a call from the International Rescue Coordination Center reporting […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Airmen with the Alaska Air National Guard’s 210th, 211th and 212th Rescue Squadrons rescued two men after their aircraft crashed in a remote region of the northeast Brooks Range Friday. The Alaska Rescue Coordination Center reports that the pilot of the aircraft had picked up a group of hunters from […]
Two F-15s were scrambled by NORAD at 11:30 am this morning when an aircraft, identified as a single engine Socata TBM-700, stopped communicating with air traffic controller shortly after 10 am Eastern Time on Friday. The aircraft is confirmed to belong to Buckingham Properties and the pilot has been identified as Larry Glazer, a developer […]
COAST GUARD CUTTER HEALY, Arctic Ocean – Coast Guard and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration researchers successfully landed an unmanned aircraft system on the flight deck of Coast Guard Cutter Healy Monday, marking the first time a UAS has completed a take-off and landing aboard a Coast Guard icebreaker. UAS operators from AeroVironment, designers […]