What is the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)? The NTSB is an independent U.S. federal agency responsible for investigating and determining the probable cause of every U.S. civil aviation accident. The NTSB also investigates significant accidents involving other modes of transportation, including highways, railroads, marine and pipeline. How are NTSB investigators trained? The NTSB has […]
On Thursday morning AST released the names of the pilot and passenger who died in the crash of a Cessna 185 outside of Chitina near the Wrangell-St.Elias National Park following positive ID by the State Medical Examiner’s office in Anchorage. Identified were 45-year-old Christopher Maize, of Glennallen/Anchorage, the pilot, and passenger 36-year-old Andrew Broders of […]
After receiving a report of a downed aircraft near Friday Creek in the Palmer area, AST along with Butte Fire, Central EMS and Mat-Su Dive team responded to the scene on Tuesday evening to conduct a rescue and aircraft recovery operation. The different entities arrived at the scene around 7:30 pm on Monday evening […]
Alaska State Troopers divulged on Thursday that the State Medical Examiner’s office in Anchorage has revealed the identities of the passengers in the fatal Yute Air crash 12 miles southwest of Tuntutukliak that occurred on February 6th. The flight, a Piper PA-32R Cherokee, had been traveling from Bethel to Kipnuk one hundred miles distant […]