Alaska State Troopers believe alcohol played a factor in a snow machine crash in the village of Crooked Creek on Tuesday morning. Troopers were notified of a snow machine crash in Crooked Creek at 1:07 am on Tuesday morning. The trooper investigation revealed that 24-year-old Gabriel John of Crooked Creek and 21-year-old Oxenia Sakar of […]
The intersection of Airport Way and University Avenue was the scene of a fatal collision between a tractor trailer and a 1994 Saturn SL early Monday morning shortly after 6 am. The accident occurred as 56-year-old Benny Easters of Hawaii was turning left on Airport Way in his 18-wheel tractor trailer. As he was turning, […]
A 911 call went in to the Soldotna Public Safety Communications Center reporting an airplane crash on the Kustatan Bench on the west side of Cook Inlet on Thanksgiving morning at 11:36 am, the trooper dispatch reports. It was reported that “the Alaska State Troopers and Rescue Coordination Center began recalling assets to respond,” but, […]
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, […]