A Chitina man kayaking on Town Lake near the village drowned while out on the lake Thursday evening. A call was made to troopers at approximately 9 pm this past Thursday reporting a kayaker in distress and Glennallen troopers, Wildlife Troopers and Chitina EMS responded to the scene. The caller reported that they had lost […]
On Thursday morning AST released the names of the pilot and passenger who died in the crash of a Cessna 185 outside of Chitina near the Wrangell-St.Elias National Park following positive ID by the State Medical Examiner’s office in Anchorage. Identified were 45-year-old Christopher Maize, of Glennallen/Anchorage, the pilot, and passenger 36-year-old Andrew Broders of […]
Alaska State Troopers say that after exhaustive efforts they have called off the search for Ian Michael Lutz, who disappeared around the first of the month in Chitina near the Chitina Village Apartments. AST utilized drone imagery, K9 search teams from MATSAR and Helo 3 to search for Lutz who was reported missing after his […]
The Alaska Rescue Coordination Center was notified at 11:41 that a Cessna 185 crashed 13 miles northeast of Chitna when the aircraft’s Emergency Locator Transmitter was set of, troopers report. The RCC immediately responded to the remote location and located the crash site along a wooded slope but would find no survivors. Alaska State Troopers […]