JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Airmen with the Alaska Air National Guard’s 211th and 212th Rescue Squadrons were dispatched Monday morning in search of an overdue aircraft that was headed to McCarthy. The 211th RQS HC-130J Combat King II aircraft and crew, including two pararescuemen onboard from the 212th RQS, searched the pilot’s reported route, […]
On Thursday morning, Alaska State Troopers released the identity of the pilot killed in the fatal Whittier crash that occurred on Saturday. AST reports that the State Medical Examiner’s office identified that person as 31-year-old Brett Andrews of Anchorage. According to reports, Andrews was en route to Valdez from Merrill Field on Saturday when he went down […]
The remains of the pilot who died in a plane crash near Whittier on Saturday, whose name remains un-released, were recovered from the crash site on Sunday morning, the Alaska State Troopers revealed. The Department of Public Safety’s Helo-3 and the Alaska Mountain Rescue Group were able to access the crash site and recover the remains of […]
An Anchorage aviator was located uninjured after the Coast Guard launched a MH-60T helicopter to search for an ELT signal in Johnstone Bay on Monday of last week, troopers report. At 1:32 pm on last Monday, the Coast Guard contacted troopers and informed them that they had detected an ELT locator beacon emanating from Johnstone Bay […]