"Taquan Air"

The NTSB says a key component appears to have failed before the Otter crash in Washington, and the agency is calling on regulators to require operators to inspect their planes before their next flights.

Alaska has made up a growing share of the country’s crashes involving small commercial aircraft, according to an investigation by KUCB and ProPublica.

Two pilots whose planes collided near Ketchikan in 2019 were unable to see or detect each other until a midair crash was unavoidable.

Some Ketchikan businesses managed to limp through 2020 but wonder how they’ll survive a second season without cruise visitors.

Ketchikan’s proposed change to its cruise passenger head tax has met with opposition from the cruise industry and some local business owners.

Witnesses told investigators that wind appeared to push the 1959 DeHavilland DHC-2 Beaver to the right as it touched down at the seaplane base near Metlakatla.

One plane was not capable of receiving alerts about nearby aircraft and was not transmitting data about its own altitude to the other plane.

The preliminary report on the fatal May 20 floatplane crash near Metlakatla was released by the National Transportation Safety Board on Friday.

Two people are dead after a floatplane operated by Taquan Air went down near Annette Island late Monday afternoon.