The Alaska State Troopers, NTSB, and Alaska National Guard aircraft and personnel conducted recovery efforts Saturday at the site of the Bering Air plane crash. Two HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopters, a Nome-based UH-60L Black Hawk, an HC -130J Combat King II and a team of pararescuemen worked to recover the victims. The bodies have been […]
JUNEAU, Alaska — The Coast Guard ended its search for a missing aircraft with 10 people aboard after it was located Friday afternoon approximately 34 miles southeast of Nome. A Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter aircrew located the aircraft wreckage and lowered two rescue swimmers down to the aircraft. The rescue swimmers located three individuals in […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON — Alaska Air National Guardsmen of 211th Rescue Squadron assisted District 17 Coast Guardsmen rescue a pilot of a downed Cessna 207 Nov. 21 at Iliamna Lake. The Coast Guard dispatched an HH-60 Jayhawk from Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak, and the 176th Operations Group search and rescue duty officer dispatched a […]
(Homer, AK) – Thursday, 22-year-old Tyler Cordes was sentenced in a packed Homer courthouse for driving while intoxicated and crashing his vehicle, which resulted in the death of one passenger, 25-year-old Drew Brown, of Homer, and the injury of two other passengers. In August, Cordes pled guilty to Criminally Negligent Homicide, two counts of Assault, […]