Alaska State troopers continue to investigate the circumstances surrounding the crash of a private plane that went down in Cook Inlet near Birchwood on Thursday, August 6th. Troopers originally reported on Friday of last week that they had received a call informing them that there was a downed aircraft west of the Birchwood Airport. The Rescue Coordination Center […]
An NTSB investigator is traveling to the scene of a fatal Sunday aircraft crash on Monday the trooper dispatch reports. Troopers report that a Cessna U206G Stationair crashed after its landing gear struck a tree in Trapper Creek when the pilot, 54-year-old Michael Zagula, was overflying his daughter’s wedding reception at approximately 7 pm on […]
Alaska State Troopers have released the names of the two pilots involved in mid-air collision in the Matanuska Valley over the weekend as 35-year-old Alaska Wildlife Trooper Levi Duell and 52-year-old Eagle River resident Jeffrey Bara. It was just after 1 pm on Saturday afternoon that a report went in to the troopers reporting a mid-air […]
Four people involved in a single engine plane crash at mile 243.5 of the Dalton Highway were transported out of the area via a strip nearby after workers on a nearby bridge saw the plane go down and notified the Alyeska Pipeline Service Company at pump station 4. The Pipeline Company sent medical personnel and other […]