While celebrating Columbus Day, Ralph Wein, the brother of Noel Wein and co-founder of Alaska’s first airline, Wein Air Alaska, crashed in full view of onlookers in Kotzebue on October 2th, 1930. Aboard his aircraft, a Bellanca, that day were Fr. Philip Delon, Superior General of Alaskan Catholic missions, and Fr. William Walsh, a diocesan […]
Alton C Nordale, Alaska’s Territorial Legislator, and four others were returning to Fairbanks after attending Discovery Day in Dawson on August 19th, 1935, but never reached their destination. Searchers sought the aircraft, or even clues, for an extended period along the four-hour intended flight path, but as winter set in, nothing about the fate of […]
