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U.S. Coast Guard officials say the site was spotted Monday, prompting them to suspend the search for the missing 1948 Beechcraft Bonanza.
According to court filings, the pilot ascribes to beliefs connected to the sovereign citizens movement. He pleaded not guilty to three charges in court Tuesday.
Samuel Wright of Haines and Yakutat residents Tanya Hutchins and Hans Munich were en route from Juneau to Yakutat on Saturday.
No one was injured when the de Havilland turbine Beaver carrying nine people experienced a “power issue” returning to Talkeetna, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.
A pilot and eight passengers on a flightseeing plane were rescued Friday after the aircraft lost power and made an emergency landing in the Alaska Range, the National Park Service said.
Roger Holmberg Sr., who faces a federal assault charge and is now banned by Alaska Airlines, was upset his wife was upgraded to first class and he wasn’t, an FBI special agent wrote in a sworn affidavit.
The plane had done several touch-and-gos on the Kenai Peninsula lake before it crashed during another approach, witnesses said, killing a flight instructor and Air Force colonel.
If approved, it would be the first U.S. airline union contact to include pay for flight attendants while passengers are boarding the plane, the union said.
The National Transportation Safety Board said Boeing “blatantly violated” regulations by providing investigative information to the media and speculating about causes of the Jan. 5 door plug blowout on a 737 Max 9 in Portland.
U.S. Air Force Col. Mark “Tyson” Sletten, the director of operations at Alaskan Command, and Utah flight instructor Paul Kondrat died Tuesday in a crash on Crescent Lake.
Troopers identified the occupants of the plane that crashed into Crescent Lake near Moose Pass on Tuesday as Anchorage resident Mark Sletten, 46, and Utah resident Paul Kondrat, 41.
A detail in Boeing’s alert — mention of a system on the Max’s LEAP engine that many pilots hadn’t known about — caused concern.
The tone of the hearing was set hours earlier, when the panel released a 204-page report with new allegations from a whistleblower who said he worries that defective parts could be going into 737s.
On a flight from Phoenix to Oakland, the plane went into a “Dutch roll,” a yawing motion when the tail slides and the plane rocks from wingtip to wingtip, the FAA said.
Robert Brandon Smith is accused of becoming agitated with flight attendants and passengers last Thursday, according to federal charges filed in U.S. District Court.
Officials said the Talon Air Service de Havilland Beaver crashed Monday in the Kijik Lake area.
A National Transportation Safety Board spokesman said investigators are still determining how much of a factor the lack of certification was in the crash.
The Alaska State Troopers this week said Harry Secoy and John Sliwinski died in the fiery crash of the Douglas DC-4 into the Tanana River on April 23.
Troopers were notified late Friday of the upside-down aircraft in Six Mile Lake near the community of Nondalton, located about 200 miles southwest of Anchorage.
The effort continues an initiative by the airline that was halted by the pandemic. In just one of the efforts, work on the Alaska Airlines lounge at the Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport starts soon.
Spirit is Boeing’s most important supplier on the 737s because it makes fuselages and installs door plugs like the one that flew off a plane operated by Alaska Airlines in January.
Boeing informed the FAA that on some 787s, the company may not have completed required inspections to confirm adequate bonding and electrical grounding where the wings join the fuselage body.
The new allegations of fraud against Boeing could ultimately connect the Alaska Airlines incident with two deadly 737 Max crashes in 2018 and 2019.