Alaska State Troopers reported on Thursday that they had been informed by the salvage company tasked with removing the wreckage of the Yute Air Cessna that crashed into the Kwethluk River last Saturday, that the aircraft had been removed from the river. Troopers responded from Bethel to the scene to recover the remains of the […]
Alaska State Troopers reported today that the remains of the Yute Air pilot, 47-year-old Blaze Highlander of Olympia, Washington, were discovered in the aircraft that was located overturned and wrecked in the Kwethluk River. Highlander had taken the aircraft out on Saturday morning, and was last heard from as he left Bethel airspace at 8:50 am […]