This Day in Alaska History-February 21st, 1924

ANCHORAGE, ALASKA – A Nebraska man was sentenced on February 3, 2023, for assaulting a flight attendant during a commercial airline flight. According to court documents, on January 29, 2023, Denis McCarville, 70, of Omaha, Nebraska was a passenger aboard Delta Flight 2236 with service from Minneapolis, Minnesota to Anchorage, Alaska. While the aircraft was […]
On August 7th, 1938, a Pan American Airways, twin-engine “baby clipper” departed the Sand Point Naval Air Station, five miles northeast of Seattle, and headed north for Ketchikan and Juneau in an air service experiment to Alaska. The aircraft flew an outside route over water in what was to be a seven-hour flight to Ketchikan but was delayed […]