Alaska DispatchReport on Merrill Field crash highlights pilot decision-makingAlaska DispatchLoss of control at low altitude, which is nearly always unrecoverable, is a recurrent cause of accidents in Alaska. As so many safety reports attest, retaining control sometimes means that landing the aircraft in an other-than-runway location is the ...
USA TODAYInvestigation: Post-crash fires in small planes cost 600 livesUSA TODAYThe figures almost certainly understate the fire-related death toll because USA TODAY could not obtain death records in six states, where they are not publicly available, including New York and Alaska, which has more small-airplane deaths than all but ...
Alaska Native NewsAircraft Crash Survivor Dies in ATV CrashAlaska Native News26-year-old Melanie Coffee, one of six survivors of the November 29th crash of a Hageland Aviation Cessna 208 near St Marys, perished in an ATV crash in the village of St Marshall on Wednesday. Reports coming from the village, report that Coffee had ...
