Alaska State troopers traveled to an aircraft crash site on Saturday after the Soldotna dispatch received multiple calls reporting the crash in Kasilof at 8:11 PM on Saturday evening. When Central Emergency Services and Soldotna-based troopers traveled to South Cohoe Loop Road and arrived at the scene at 3.2 miles down that road, they located […]
Alaska State Troopers had to divert traffic around an accident scene near mile 50 of the Parks Highway after a three-vehicle accident there at 11:10 am on Tuesday, trooper dispatch reported. When troopers arrived at the scene this morning, their investigation revealed that a silver sedan driven by 71-year-old John Hensel was rear-ended while he […]
Rescue teams were poised to hike through rugged terrain Tuesday toward the wreckage of an Indonesian airliner with 54 people aboard that crashed into a mountain Sunday. A search plane spotted the debris from the crash of Trigana Air Flight 267 in the eastern province of Papua early Monday. The ATR 42-300 twin turboprop disappeared […]
Alaska State troopers continue to investigate the circumstances surrounding the crash of a private plane that went down in Cook Inlet near Birchwood on Thursday, August 6th. Troopers originally reported on Friday of last week that they had received a call informing them that there was a downed aircraft west of the Birchwood Airport. The Rescue Coordination Center […]