The space industry was met with another mishap for the second time this week,when Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo tourism vehicle exploded in midair over the Mojave Desert Friday. Witnesses report the rocket exploded after release from the jet that carried it aloft, and a short time after igniting its own rocket motor. One person, one of the pilots, […]
26-year-old Melanie Coffee, one of six survivors of the November 29th crash of a Hageland Aviation Cessna 208 near St Marys, perished in an ATV crash in the village of St Marshall on Wednesday. Reports coming from the village, report that Coffee had hit a tree in a fatal collision. No one witnesses the actual […]
A Cessna 180 was practicing touch and gos on a remote gravel bar 23 miles north of Gustavus on Wednesday evening when the aircraft hit a dip on the gravel bar and the aircraft suffered a prop strike, flipping the aircraft over. Ketchikan State Troopers received a call from the International Rescue Coordination Center reporting […]
Alaska State Troopers pursued a fleeing pickup truck down Trunk and Bogard Roads on Monday, until the chase ended in a crash near Green Forest Drive during the early morning hours. Troopers observed a maroon 1998 Chevy pickup speeding while traveling eastbound on Trunk Road at 3:15 am Monday morning. As troopers watched, the truck proceeded […]