Lubova “Lulu” Fisher believes that the passengers remaining calm and not panicking allowed the pilot to focus on keeping everyone alive.
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Yute Commuter Service reports no injuries after landing plane on frozen lake near Pilot Station
The airline sent a second plane from Bethel to pick up the pilot, the passengers and their luggage from the lake.
Bethel residents donate food and music to a new batch of stranded air travelers
Bethel resident Aggie Gregory has been trying to keep stranded passengers fed since early December.
Hundreds of passengers headed for villages stranded in Bethel over the Christmas holidays
Community members across Bethel have been stepping in to help the stranded travelers by donating food and household items.
Operation Santa heads to Chevak and Buckland in Western Alaska
Operation Santa recipient communities are identified by the state as communities that have experienced particular hardship that year.
Child protective service worker in Bethel charged with sexual assault of an adult
Several local non-profit organizations that he is a board member of are evaluating whether to remove Jon Cochrane from his positions.
Citizens hide from active shooters as Alaska fails to deliver on 2019 promise of village troopers
It took Alaska State Troopers 110 days to catch one of three people accused of an ambush in Russian Mission on July 28. Neighbors said they slept with rifles under their beds and shotgun shells on the windowsill, ready for anything.
NTSB: Yute commuter flight was ‘immediately engulfed in flames’ after passengers got out
According to the report, the pilot noticed that the plane’s emergency locator transmitter had turned on shortly after take-off, and he started to smell what he described as “an electrical burn smell.”
Bethel just recorded its coldest November in 80 years
Last month was brutally cold in many parts of Alaska, including in Bethel, which had its second coldest winter on record.
‘River is getting close.’ Erosion is threatening Napakiak’s school
The village is losing ground three times faster than it was 10 years ago, according to studies of Napakiak’s erosion.