Proven killer of Alaska State Troopers: Aircraft

Alaska DispatchProven killer of Alaska State Troopers: AircraftAlaska DispatchIn most of these deaths, Department of Public Safety employees were at the controls of the aircraft, and crash investigators blamed pilot error in whole or in part for the fatalities. But National Transportation Safety Board investigators did not ...

NTSB: Pilot error to blame for fatal 2011 mid

Anchorage Daily NewsNTSB: Pilot error to blame for fatal 2011 mid-air collision involving coupleAnchorage Daily NewsPilot error led to a fatal September 2011 mid-air crash involving a romantically linked couple flying next to each other over western Alaska, according to a newly released National Transportation Safety Board probable-cause finding. Pilot Scott Veal ...

The Incredible Alaskan Bush Pilots

SubversifyThe Incredible Alaskan Bush PilotsSubversifyOn January 5, 1943, he picked up five passengers in Seattle en route to Alaska. Just sixteen minutes from Ketchikan by air, his plane went down in a violent storm. It took nearly a month to find the survivors. One of the passengers had died in the ...

The Alaska Adventurer

Turnagain TimesThe Alaska AdventurerTurnagain TimesAs I stepped off the plane at the King Salmon airport the temperature was relatively warm for an Alaskan winter morning. The tarmac at the airport was still cold enough to have a thin layer of ice contouring its surface. The small, western Alaska town ...

Federal agency scutinizes state aviation safety culture that led DPS official ...

Anchorage Daily NewsFederal agency scutinizes state aviation safety culture that led DPS official ...Anchorage Daily NewsAlaska's Public Safety Commissioner stands behind a 2009 decision to send a state plane to Kodiak for a group with agency connections despite the pilot's concerns about the weather. The flight went off without incident, but a former high-ranking ...

14 Years Later, Drama of Alaska Airlines 261 Remembered

Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)14 Years Later, Drama of Alaska Airlines 261 RememberedSeattle Post Intelligencer (blog)On the beach, more dolphins are depicted in bronze on the memorial to the victims of Alaska Airlines Flight 261, which crashed 14 years ago today. P1020196.JPG. Eighty eight ... There was time for the crew to issue one Mayday before the plane hit the ...

AK Beat: Alaska confirms third death this flu season

Alaska DispatchAK Beat: Alaska confirms third death this flu seasonAlaska DispatchThe University of Alaska Fairbanks plane and the University of Alaska Anchorage plane will be 10th and 11th planes to be so painted, following Northwest schools like Boise State, Oregon State and the Universities of Washington, Oregon, Montana and ...