The United States Coast Guard began searching for an overdue helicopter en route to Kodiak from Anchorage northeast of Kodiak on Tuesday. The black and white Robinson R66 with the tail number N1767, piloted by 52-year-old Andy Teuber, CEO of the Kodiak Area Native Association, departed Merrill Field at 2:09 pm on Tuesday and disappeared […]
Debris rained down in residential neighborhoods, soccer fields, yards, and parks in the Denver suburb of Broomfield 25 miles north of the city on Saturday. The aircraft, a United Flight 328 777-200, suffered a serious engine malfunction shortly after takeoff from the Denver International Airport bound for Honolulu. By 1:30 pm, the Federal Aviation Administration […]
When my boss, Sue Mitchell, was in Tibet recently, she asked a local guide if the glaciers there were shrinking. The guide told her no, the glaciers were fine. When she returned to Alaska, Mitchell asked the same question of glaciologist Martin Truffer, who also works at UAF’s Geophysical Institute. He said no, Himalaya glaciers […]
AST responded to reports of an explosion and a rockslide at mile 13 of the North Tongass Highway at dinnertime on Tuesday. When they arrived at that location at approximately 5:30 pn, they found both lanes of the highway blocked by a landslide. The cause of the slide was determined to have been an intentional […]