Alaska State Troopers have identified the victim of a Wednesday night plane crash west of Cook Inlet as Jason Walkush, 35.
A troopers spokeswoman said Thursday that officials believed they knew the identity of the plane crash victim but decided to wait for confirmation from the state medical examiner.
[Pilot killed as small plane crashes west of Cook Inlet]
Walkush was an Anchorage resident, troopers said.
Walkush was the pilot and sole occupant of a Piper PA-18 that crashed 50 miles west of Tyonek, at the east end of Chakachamna Lake and about 80 miles west of Anchorage.
The 11th Air Force's Rescue Coordination Center received a signal from the plane's 406 ELT, or emergency locator transmitter, around 10:45 p.m. Wednesday. The signal led troopers and a federal investigator to the site of the crash the next day; an investigation got underway with the retrieval of Walkush's body.