HEADQUARTERS, U.S. ARMY ALASKA, FORT WAINWRIGHT, Alaska – An Arctic Dustoff crew from C Company, 1st Battalion, 52nd Aviation Regiment closed out 2019 and began the new year with a mission to assist survivors from a small plane crash. The Alaska Rescue Coordination Center at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson forwarded the request for assistance just […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Airmen with the Alaska Air National Guard’s 210th, 211th and 212th Rescue Squadrons rescued a pilot of a Cessna 185 aircraft April 15 near Pish River in the Bering Land Bridge National Preserve after the plane crashed. According to Alaska Air National Guard Senior Master Sgt. Evan Budd, Alaska […]
Crash risks and increased rock fall creates a public safety problem at drainage site (ANCHORAGE, Alaska) – The Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities (DOT&PF) is closing the drainage site at mile 109 on the Seward Highway due to safety concerns. This site is a designated Highway Safety Corridor and was the location of a […]
Ethiopian Airlines said in a Twitter post Monday that searchers have recovered both black boxes from the flight that crashed Sunday. Ethiopia is observing a day of mourning for the 157 people who died when the Boeing 737 MAX-8 jet headed for Nairobi went down just six minutes after takeoff from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s […]