A spokesman says Guardsmen rescued eight people in five missions 'all over the place' during the Labor Day weekend.
Alaska Air National Guardsmen used an HH-60G Pave Hawk’s hoist system, seen here during a June exercise at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, to rescue two injured people from a Friday, Aug. 30, 2024 plane crash near Tok.
“On Sunday, we launched NTSB investigator Stacia Joyce along with the Alaska State Troopers and one of their helicopters,” Johnson said. Johnson hopes to recover the wrecked plane in the coming days, while the agency follows up on investigating the other crashes.“We rescued eight individuals from five different missions, and the missions were all over the place,” said 176th Wing spokesperson Dave Bedard. He said one of those missions was to recover Foster’s body and bring it back for an autopsy.
Bedard said the second mission, for a plane crash about 50 miles southwest of Tok, was much more complicated.near Slana, off the Tok Cutoff. Bedard said the terrain required rescuers to hoist them up into the helicopter from the ground using a cable.
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