The National Transportation Board announced that the toxicology report on Charles Weimer, the pilot of the August 4th crash intoGoat Mountain confirms what the NTSB suspected and Weimer had a reported five and a half times the legal limit of alcohol in his system at the time of the crash. “We had some indicators […]
Anchorage police report that two were arrested as a result of a traffic stop after an Impaired Driving Enforcement Unit officer spotted a silver 2012 Chevy Equinox driving the wrong way down C Street near 68th Avenue Thursday morning. When the IDEU officer spotted the Equinox with significant front end damage, he activated his […]
Ben Jones recently returned to the tundra site of a plane crash that in May took the life of the pilot, and left Jones bloodied and broken. Jones is a do-it-all scientist with the Institute of Northern Engineering at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. He is inventive and opportunistic, pursuing curiosities of northern Alaska […]
An Astra rocket launch from the Pacific Spaceport Complex on Kodiak island ended sooner than expected on Friday night when the vehicle suffered oscillations and safety systems shut down the engines and it crashed back to the ground in a spectacular explosion. The launch at 11:19 pm was a test of the company’s first […]