A Fairbanks Pilot was indicted by a federal grand jury in Anchorage on two charges of Obstruction before the National Transportation Board and piloting an aircraft without a valid airman’s certificate, the US Department of Justice announced on Thursday. According to the DoJ press release, 60-year-old Forest M. Kirst’s indictment stems from an incident that […]
An aircraft, missing for over nine years, has finally turned up on Admiralty Island, a mile and a half from Young Lake, it was reported by AST. The wreckage of the aircraft, a Cesssna 182e, with the tail number N9350X, was discovered by a local hunter and reported to troopers on last Wednesday. Investigators reported […]
Alaska State Troopers say that recovery efforts are underway to retrieve a deceased pilot from a crash site near Chakachamna Lake west of Tyonek. AST reports that the Alaska Rescue Coordination Center picked up a 406 beacon from the aircraft 50 miles west of Tyonek at 10:47 pm on Wednesday night. RCC responded and located […]
On Sunday afternoon, a DeHavilland DHC-2 Beaver crashed into Big Goat Lake on take-off, it was reported in the trooper dispatch on Monday. The “Beaver,” flown by 30-year-old Matthew B. Perron, had taken six passengers, from a cruise line that was docked in Ketchikan. The flight had gone to the popular sight-seeing destination in the […]