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 […]
Alaska State Troopers, via the trooper dispatch, reported on a crash of a Piper PA-18 along the Kenai River on Wednesday that occurred just before 3 pm. According to the report, troopers, along with Central Emergency Services and members of the Alaska State Parks responded to the crash scene at 2:56 pm on Wednesday to […]
A Russian court is expected to find a Ukrainian pilot guilty in the 2014 killing of two Russian journalists in war-torn Ukraine. The trial of Nadiya Savchenko has been internationally condemned as a political sham. She is set to be sentenced Tuesday after the court hands down its verdict. Prosecutors have demanded a 23-year prison […]
An early morning plane crash in downtown Anchorage closed off several blocks of downtown from I to L Street as well as Third and Fourth Avenues. Although it is not confirmed, it is believed that only the pilot was aboard the plane when it crashed into the fourth floor of the Brady building on West […]