Posts tagged plane crash

• FAA Faulted in 2007 Misty Fjords Fatal Plane Crash

  Mike Schneider | August 15, 2008 9:17 PM | 4 CommentsAnchorage, AK Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  The NTSB has issued a report critical of the FAA's oversight of flightseeing operations by Taquan Air Service. The Ketchikan flight service lost a Beaver on floats, its pilot, and four passengers...

• Andrews Missing in Presumed Plane Crash

  Mike Schneider | August 13, 2008 12:51 AM | 0 CommentsAnchorage, AK Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  Deputy Commissioner of Revenue, Brian Andrews, 56, and his son, Brandon, 24, are the subject of an intensive search in areas between Young Lake and Juneau. The Cessna 182 on floats had dropped...

• Baronof Is. Plane Crash Deaths Identified

  Mike Schneider | August 13, 2008 12:28 AM | 3 CommentsAnchorage, AK Category: Wrongful Death
  

  The pilot of the baron 55 that crashed on Baronof Is. was 83 year old Harold Joseph Gaines of Marietta, Ga. His passenger has been identified as 73 year old Sy Mymudes of Decatur, Ga. A fuel...

• Baronof Is. Plane Crash Leaves Two Dead

  Mike Schneider | August 12, 2008 11:51 AM | 0 CommentsAnchorage, AK Category: Wrongful Death
  

  Over the weekend the bodies of the pilot and passenger of a Baron 55 were located by authorities on Baronof Is., 30 miles north of Sitka. Names have not been released. If a defect in the plane, or a...

• Cook Inlet Plane Crash Kills Three

  Mike Schneider | July 21, 2008 4:00 PM | 0 CommentsAnchorage, AK Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  The 60 year old pilot, Thomas Iverson, and his two passengers perished late in the morning of July 12, 2008, when the Cessna floatplane crashed and burned on the West side of Cook Inlet. The crash...

• Caravan Gear Failure Leads To Minor Injuries

  Mike Schneider | January 16, 2008 8:04 AM | 0 CommentsAnchorage, AK Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  Tuesday, a Grant Aviation medivac flight landed in Bethel, but the nose gear failed before the plane could be safely parked at the airport. Snow conditions on the taxiway may have contributed to the fialure and the NTSB is investigating. A couple of the people on board complained of pain after the incident.

• FAA Clears Pilot in Fatal Crash

  Jane Schneider | January 11, 2008 12:18 AM | 0 CommentsAnchorage, AK Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  SeaWind Aviation pilot Steve Kamm was recently cleared by the FAA of violating regulations in the August crash that left some passengers dead and seriously injured. But the FAA's very findings, including that the weather was adequate for flight and that the plane was properly equipped, suggest negligent operation as one possible cause of the crash. Those on board, and their families, have...

• Kodiak Crash Kills Six

  Jane Schneider | January 06, 2008 10:45 AM | 0 CommentsAnchorage, AK Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  Nine passengers and an experienced pilot, Robin Starrett, were on board Servant Air's PA-31 Navajo Chieftain when it crashed into icy waters 50 yards from the Kodiak runway. The pilot encountered unknown problems just after the charter flight departed Kodiak for Homer. Another air taxi operator, Dean Andrew, was on the scene immediately and helped rescue 4 of the survivors, one of whom...

• Bethel Plane Crash Leaves One Seriously Injured

  Mike Schneider | December 19, 2007 12:20 PM | 0 CommentsAnchorage, AK Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  An Arctic Circle Air Cessna 208 Caravan crashed after takeoff from Bethel Tuesday morning. The most seriously injured passenger was and Arctic Circle Air employee. The NTSB is investigating. AS 23/30.055 will bar any claim for negligence against the pilot or Arctic Circle that the passenger/employee might otherwise make. But any other non-employee passenger can make such a claim. They will...

• Helicopter Medivac Crash Leaves No Survivors

  Jane Schneider | December 10, 2007 12:34 AM | 0 CommentsAnchorage, AK Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  Monday, December 3, 2007, a helicopter carrying John Stumpf, flight nurse, Cameron Carter, paramedic, Gaye McDowell, patient, and flown by Lance Brabham went missing less than half way through a 90 minute flight between Cordova and Anchorage. Saturday, Stumpf's body was found with some wreckage along the flight path that would have taken the flight through Portage Pass on its way to Anchorage. ...