A downed aircraft, a Piper PA-18A closed Spenard Road for a short time on Sunday, Anchorage police report. The single-engine aircraft on skis was forced to make an emergency landing in front of the Marriott Hotel near the Lake Hood Seaplane Base. The pilot, who suffered minor injuries in the mishap, reported an in-flight emergency […]
Alaska State Troopers have released the identities of the Saturday night helicopter crash victims and also report that the sole survivor of the crash, 48-year-old Czech Republic resident David Horvath, remains in serious but stable condition at an Anchorage hospital. AST was notified of an overdue helicopter and the location of possible crash debris near […]
Multiple calls began streaming in to the Anchorage police on Wednesday night reporting two different vehicles in the ditch along the Glenn Highway near the Fort Rich exit. Then at 9:31 pm, another call was fielded, this time from a woman reporting that she had been hit by another vehicle causing her to crash into […]
Alaska State Troopers, Ketchikan police, and the North Tongass Volunteer Fire department searched for over an hour for a motorist who reported that he had been involved in a serious accident on Thursday. The motorist, identified as Christopher Comstock, called in to report that he had been involved in an accident and was in extreme […]
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 […]
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 […]
Alaska State Troopers revealed that they had responded to a location on Gaswell Road in Soldotna at 4:14 am after receiving a call reporting a vehicle in a ditch and a man rolling around in the middle of the road. When troopers arrived on the scene minutes later, they found a man, identified as 21-year-old […]
AST reports that the driver of a 2019 Volkswagen Golf died in a collision at mile 30 of the Seward Highway on Tuesday afternoon. At 1:33 pm on January 12th, the Golf was traveling on the highway headed north at a high rate of speed and crashed into the rear end of a DOT road […]