Aviation

Ray Lin Howard said she was humiliated and feels that flight attendants targeted her because she is plus size.

At least one passenger made threats toward crew during the Anchorage-bound flight after others in their group had already been removed from the plane in Seattle for “disruptive behavior,” the airline said.

The crash killed five visitors off a cruise ship and an experienced Washington state pilot.

“I could stay out there for hours and hours,” said the aircraft enthusiast.

The Cessna 208 suddenly dropped and was severely damaged during a flight Monday near Fairbanks, but no one was injured.

The agreement, announced this week, should make flying more affordable for residents in rural Alaska, including Unalaska where Alaska Airlines stopped marketing flights in 2019.

Efforts to recover the wreckage of a sightseeing plane that crashed in Southeast Alaska last week, killing six people, remained on hold Monday as investigators awaited a break in poor weather.

The people were rescued Saturday from the U.S. Forest Service cabin at Humpback Lake in the Misty Fjords National Monument after their float plane crashed, the U.S. Coast Guard said.

Foggy and reduced visibility conditions delayed efforts to recover the wreckage of a flightseeing plane that crashed in Southeast Alaska, killing six people, a National Transportation Safety Board official said Sunday.

Poor weather had kept crews from accessing the site of a fatal flightseeing plane crash near Misty Fjords.

Weather Friday morning delayed body recovery. The five passengers aboard the Southeast Aviation de Havilland DC-2 Beaver all came off the same Holland America cruise ship.

In complaints to the pilots union and on private Facebook groups, Horizon Air pilots say that because the policy threatens to bar them from moving up to the more lucrative jobs at Alaska Airlines, it could threaten safety.

The five passengers were from a Holland America cruise ship.

The airline, operated by a joint venture between an established Alaska service and a Florida charter with hedge fund backing, hopes to start the new service by early fall.

The pilot reported losing power before the plane went down near Talkeetna, Alaska State Troopers say.

McKenna Vierra, 27, received her private pilot’s license in November while she was undergoing difficult chemotherapy treatments for cancer, her family said. An Anchorage flight instructor was taking her on a discovery flight over the Chugach Mountains when his plane crashed.

The remains of pilot and flight instructor Dakota Bauder of Anchorage, 23, and Hawaii resident McKenna Vierra, 27, were recovered Tuesday, Alaska State Troopers said.

The Cessna 172P is owned by a flight school operating out of Merrill Field Airport in Anchorage.

The Super Cub’s pilot and passenger were flown to a hospital after their plane experienced engine failure and they had to make an emergency landing, the Guard said.

Each management volunteer had to sign up for computer-based training, followed by on-the-job training during the first shift.