Coast Guard personnel responded after getting an alert from the plane’s emergency locator transmitter on Sunday.
Search & Rescue
Update: Wreckage spotted in search for plane that went missing on its way to Ketchikan
The plane was last heard from near Cape Yakataga northwest of Yakutat on Sunday.
Details emerge about Haines canoe accident that left guiding clients critically hypothermic
The canoe’s seven passengers spent a substantial amount of time in the lake’s cold water as they swam to shore.
2 Tennessee hikers survived 8 days lost in the woods east of Fairbanks
We just seemed like we could not drink enough water,” Jonas Bare said. “We were so thirsty all the time.”
Air Guardsmen save 2 hunters in precarious cliff rescue near Tonsina
The hunters spent about two hours “just hanging on to a cliff face” thousands of feet above the ground.
Missing kayaker believed to have drowned on Mendenhall Lake
Paul Rodriguez was reported overdue Sunday night, but his kayak was found last Tuesday on Mendenhall Lake.
Craig George, renowned Arctic wildlife biologist and whale expert, missing in rafting accident
Craig George, 70, spent decades studying bowhead whales and documenting their long-term increases.
2 dead, 3 survive after plane crashes near Old Harbor
The plane was operated by Kodiak-based Vertigo Air.
Alaska’s top Coast Guard official warns of rising medevac cases as he leaves command
As cruise ship tourism returns and grows, the demand for emergency services is growing, too.
Deep sea rescues have a mixed track record. The Pisces III is one that succeeded
An international mission rescued both occupants of a sunken submersible off the coast of Ireland in 1973 with just 12 minutes to spare. The men had spent three days in darkness and silence.