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, […]
[content id=”79272″] On Wednesday evening a serious accident between a pickup and a motorcoach resulted in the death of two according to trooper reports. Troopers were notified of the collision at mile 38 of the Seward Highway at 5:54 pm on Wednesday. Mile 38 is just north of the Seward/Sterling Highway interchange. The trooper reports […]
Troopers report the fatal crash of a Cessna 206 on the Porcupine River near Chalkyitsik on Tuesday afternoon. The Department of Public Safety’s HELO 2 launched and located the aircraft. When found the partially submerged aircraft, about 170 miles northeast of Fairbanks, held the remains of the pilot and only occupant, 28-year-old Palmer resident Hannah […]