Rangers Find Body of Fifth and Final Member of Plane Crash in Denali National Park, AK National Park Service rangers have located the body of the fifth and final person who died after a flightseeing plane crashed in Denali Park and Preserve on August 4. Rangers will not be attempting to recover any of the victims due to dangerous conditions at the wreckage site. The K-2 Aviation flightseeing plane was piloted by Craig Steven Layson and […] SnowBrains | August 13, 2018 0 Comments
Four Found Dead and Fifth Missing in Denali, AK Plane Crash Five people are believed to have died in Saturday’s crash of a flightseeing plane near Denali, the deadliest crash of an air taxi in the Alaska Range in decades. A National Park Service ranger found four bodies in the wreckage during a search made brief by weather Monday at the precarious site. The word that no one survived Saturday’s crash dashed hopes […] SnowBrains | August 7, 2018 2 Comments
Vintage Plane Crashes into Area Popular with Skiers in the Swiss Alps Killing All 20 Onboard A vintage Swiss military plane has crashed into a mountain in the Swiss Alps, killing all 20 people on board, reports The Guardian. The JU-52 HB-HOT aircraft, which was constructed in 1939, was flying from Locarno, near Switzerland’s southern border, to airline JU-Air’s base in Dübendorf, a suburb of Zurich. It crashed into the western peak of Piz Segnas, a […] Crash SnowBrains | August 6, 2018 0 Comments
Search Resumes Today for 5 Survivors Onboard Crashed Aircraft in Denali National Park, Alaska The search for five survivors on board a crashed flightseeing plane out of Talkeetna, Alaska is set to resume Monday morning, more than a day after its Saturday crash in Denali National Park. Air National Guard helicopters as well as two K2 planes flew to the area Saturday night and were able to fly within a fifth of a mile of the plane’s […] SnowBrains | August 6, 2018 0 Comments
Pilot Identified in Truckee, CA Plane Crash That Killed 2 and Has Left Another Critically Ill UPDATE: 4:40 am PST Wed 18th July The Placer County Sheriff’s Office has identified the pilot who was killed in a plane crash Tuesday morning near the Truckee Tahoe Airport, reports the Reno Gazette Journal. The pilot was identified as 60-year-old Kenneth Whittall-Scherfee, of Carmichael, CA according to Dena Erwin, spokeswoman for the Placer County Sheriff’s Office. Whittall-Scherfee was also the […] Industry News Steven Agar | July 18, 2018 0 Comments
Human Remains Discovered On Mont Blanc Likely From Suspicious Air India Crash 50 Years Ago After years of combing the Bossons Glacier, Mont Blanc, Daniel Roche finally found human remains last Thursday. The remains have been removed for expert analysis, but it is expected that they will be confirmed as victims of the Air India Boeing 707 that came down in that area in 1966, killing all on board. A fully preserved hand and the upper […] Industry News Steven Agar | July 31, 2017 0 Comments
Plane Crash in Mountains Near Truckee, CA Kills One, Injures One A small plane headed from Santa Ana, CA to Truckee, CA crashed in the mountains 6 miles from the Truckee Airport on Monday, March 3rd, 2014. One 55-year-old woman was killed in the crash and a 70-year-old man survived and was taken to the hospital. Both of the people in the accident were from Tahoe City, CA. The plane was a A Piper PA […] SnowBrains | March 5, 2014 0 Comments
Private Jet Plane Crash in Aspen, CO Kills One, Injures Two A private jet plane, a Canadair CL600, crashed and burst into flames while trying to land at the Aspen, Colorado airport yesterday, Sunday, January 5th, 2013. The flight had come from Toluca, Mexico and was carrying two co-pilots and one pilot. One of the co-pilots, a Mexican national, was unfortunately killed in the crash. The plane was attempting a landing at the Aspen airport the plane ran off the right side of the runway, flipped over, […] SnowBrains | January 6, 2014 1 Comment
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