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Operations => Emergency Services & Operations => Topic started by: Eclipse on December 09, 2016, 08:10:48 PM

Title: Search for missing plane in Port Alsworth, AK
Post by: Eclipse on December 09, 2016, 08:10:48 PM
Wow, look at that soup...not just "fog" but "ice fog"...good luck guys!

(http://www.alaskapublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/12082016_Lake-Clark_FAA-600x450.jpg)

http://www.alaskapublic.org/2016/12/08/search-continues-for-missing-port-alsworth-plane/
Title: Re: Search for missing plane in Port Alsworth, AK
Post by: stillamarine on December 09, 2016, 08:22:50 PM
AC was found. No survivors. Not sure if CAP found it or not. A friend of the victims is on a FB group I'm a member of.
Title: Re: Search for missing plane in Port Alsworth, AK
Post by: ProdigalJim on December 09, 2016, 09:32:16 PM
A member of my squadron is very, very close to the family so this hits us hard.

Tragic.
Title: Re: Search for missing plane in Port Alsworth, AK
Post by: Chappie on December 09, 2016, 09:54:50 PM
Quote from: ProdigalJim on December 09, 2016, 09:32:16 PM
A member of my squadron is very, very close to the family so this hits us hard.

Tragic.

Thoughts and prayers for all those impacted by this tragic loss.
Title: Re: Search for missing plane in Port Alsworth, AK
Post by: Eclipse on December 10, 2016, 12:35:30 AM
Quote from: stillamarine on December 09, 2016, 08:22:50 PM
AC was found. No survivors. Not sure if CAP found it or not. A friend of the victims is on a FB group I'm a member of.

Is this confirmed? Stories posted in the last hour or so (1800 Central) indicate debris found, but no bodies.
That doesn't bode well, but no confirmation yet, apparently.

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This is the same lake that had a fatal crash last month.
http://www.ktuu.com/content/news/Civil-Air-Patrol-finds-missing-pilots-body-and-plane-in-Lake-Clark-National-Park--399932201.html

Edit: Wow - 800 feet deep and there are other unrecovered wrecks down there.  Yikes!
Title: Re: Search for missing plane in Port Alsworth, AK
Post by: SarDragon on December 10, 2016, 02:17:30 AM
A friend of mine was on the mission and posted this elsewhere: Unfortunately, we did not have a good outcome.  We found the plane in  Lake Clark.  No survivors.  Very rough time of the year.