The U.S. Coast Guard cite the use of personal locator beacon by one of two kayakers that lead to the successful conclusion of a USCG search and rescue mission in southeast Alaska on Saturday. Watchstanders at the 17th District Command Center picked up the signal from a personal locator beacon on Saturday. The signal sent […]
For the second time this week, tragedy struck the southwest Alaska community of Emmonak, troopers reported on Saturday that one of two men from the village, after going out to Middle Mouth, suffered fatal head and back injuries. The injuries were reported to the Emmonak AST and with the assistance of the local search and rescue […]
Dillingham-based Alaska State Troopers report that a Grant Aviation pilot died in a plane crash on a mountainside between Perryville and Chignik Lake on Monday. Troopers say that they were notified at 3:40 pm of the crash of Grant Aviation’s Cessna 208B Caravan aircraft, two and a half hours after the aircraft’s Emergency Locator Beacon was […]
A search for three mariners and their boat concluded successfully over the weekend in the Hooper Bay area, troopers reported on Monday. Troopers in Hooper Bay were notified of two overdue boats off of the coast near Hooper Bay at 10 minutes after midnight on Saturday morning. Within an hour of the initial report, one […]