A Civil Air Patrol training mission resulted in the rescue of two people after their plane went down on Friday near Beluga Lake in Alaska, according to the Alaska Air National Guard.
According to the Air Guard, a Civil Air Patrol flight was en route from Anchorage to Bethel on a training mission when it detected the signal of an emergency locator beacon coming from the downed aircraft, approximately 70 miles west of Anchorage. The Civil Air Patrol was able to locate and spot the aircraft, which was laying on its back and appeared to have nosed over.
The Alaska Air National Guard launched an HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopter to assist in the rescue, and the two passengers of the aircraft were taken from the scene to Soldotna. The men were not injured, according to the Alaska Air National Guard.
The incident marks the third aviation accident near Beluga Lake in the last year, after a March incident where Forest Service employee John Burick crashed but wasn't injured while attempting to land on Triumvirate Glacier, and another crash in June that killed pilot Timothy Hudok and seriously injured his passenger.