An aircraft with eight persons onboard made an emergency landing in King Salmon just before 1 pm on Thursday, AST reported in the trooper dispatch. At 12:51 King Salmon-based troopers were notified that an inbound aircraft was coming in for an emergency landing at the King Salmon Airport. According to the report, the Beechcraft landed hard […]
The Dutch Harbor Airport’s runway was closed for about four hours on Monday after an aircraft accident there on Monday afternoon. According to the report, a Grant Aviation Super King Air 8200 that was returning from Akun Island that afternoon, landed on the runway without landing gear. The Alaska Wildlife Troopers were notified of the crash […]
After more than a decade traveling through space, a robotic lander built by the European Space Agency has made the first-ever soft landing of a spacecraft on a comet. Mission controllers at ESA’s mission operations center in Darmstadt, Germany, received a signal confirming that the Philae lander had touched down on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on Wednesday, […]