Alaska State Troopers revealed details on a Thursday afternoon crash east of the Soldotna Airport and reported that the passengers and pilot all survived without injury. At 2:13 pm AST was contacted by the Anchorage Air Traffic Control that a Soldotna-bound Cessna 180 with three passengers aboard “had suffered engine failure and was unable to […]
Alaska State Troopers reported that two individuals, a woman, and a small child went missing after being swept down the Matanuska River late Tuesday night. The call reporting the incident said that five-year-old child, identified as Gabriel Lange, was playing in the water and inadvertently ventured into a deeper area of the river near an old bridge […]
AST’s Helo-3 diverted while on the return leg of a rescue mission that grabbed three from Lake Creek and plucked two additional stranded campers from the mouth of the Eska Creek on Monday evening, the trooper dispatch reported on Tuesday morning. At 4:35 pm on Monday, Helo-3 was launched after receiving a report of a […]
Helo-3 was dispatched on Sunday to rescue a Soldotna hiker from difficult conditions on the Devil’s Creek trail after that hiker called his father requesting assistance, troopers reported on the trooper dispatch. A call went in to the troopers at 8:58 am on Sunday from a Soldotna man reporting that his son, 31-year-old Andrew Jefferson, […]