Alaska State Troopers report that they began receiving 911 calls just after 6:30 pm on Saturday evening reporting that an aircraft went down on the Matanuska River near mile 99 of the Glenn Highway. As they were responding to the scene, people nearby, who saw the plane go down, responded to the river to see […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — According to Alaska.org, the Turnagain Arm bore tide is among the most powerful in the world. A layer of ocean water 6 to 10 feet tall travels on top of the Cook Inlet surface at 10 to 15 mph, swallowing anything in its path. A Taylorcraft F-19 was flipped upside […]
JUNEAU, Alaska – Coast Guard aircrews medevaced two people from Dry Bay Airstrip, approximately 30 miles Southeast of Yakutat, after their plane crashed, Tuesday. A Coast Guard Air Station Sitka MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter aircrew arrived on scene and transported two people with critical back injuries to Yakutat, and Yakutat Police Department transported a third person […]
Alaska State Troopers report that they received an alert of a plane crash near the Goose Bay Airport at 4:55 pm on Monday afternoon, They and Wildlife Troopers responded to the area and located a 1978 Taylorcraft F-19 overturned in the mudflats east of the airport. troopers would find that two women, a 33-year-old pilot […]