The Alaska State Troopers, NTSB, and Alaska National Guard aircraft and personnel conducted recovery efforts Saturday at the site of the Bering Air plane crash. Two HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopters, a Nome-based UH-60L Black Hawk, an HC -130J Combat King II and a team of pararescuemen worked to recover the victims.
The bodies have been recovered and brought to Nome where they were positively identified by Alaska State Troopers
The bodies will now be transported to the State Medical Examiner’s Office in Anchorage for autopsies. Next of kin has been notified.
The names of the crash victims are listed below:
- 34-year-old Chad Antill of Nome (pilot)
- 52-year-old Liane Ryan of Wasilla
- 58-year-old Donnell Erickson of Nome
- 30-year-old Andrew Gonzalez of Wasilla
- 41-year-old Kameron Hartvigson of Anchorage
- 46-year-old Rhone Baumgartner of Anchorage
- 52-year-old Jadee Moncur of Eagle River
- 45-year-old Ian Hofmann of Anchorage
- 34-year-old Talaluk Katchatag of Unalakleet
- 48-year-old Carol Mooers of Unalakleet
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