A Bering Air plane crashed in Alaska, killing all 10 people on board. The aircraft was en route from Unalakleet to Nome when it disappeared on Thursday afternoon. Recovery crews faced challenges due to the plane being situated on a drifting ice floe. The National Weather Service issued a winter weather advisory, prompting a race against time to recover the bodies before the storm hit.
The aircraft is on an ice floe that is drifting about 5 miles a day, creating difficult conditions for recovery crews.Saturday afternoon. Recovery crews had been racing to recover the bodies before a winter storm was expected to hit the region.“All ten individuals aboard the Bering Air plane have been officially brought home,” the fire department wrote in the social media post at about 3 p.m.
Among those killed in the crash were Rhone Baumgartner and Kameron Hartvigson. They had traveled to Unalakleet to service a heat recovery system vital to the community’s water plant, according to the The Cessna Caravan left Unalakleet at 2:37 p.m. Thursday, and officials lost contact with it less than an hour later, according to David Olson, director of operations for Bering Air. There was light snow and fog, with a temperature of 17 degrees Fahrenheit , according to the National Weather Service.Radar forensic data provided by the U.S. Civil Air Patrol indicated that about 3:18 p.m.
The plane's crash marks the third major U.S. aviation mishap in eight days. A commercial jetliner and an Army helicopter collided near the nation’s capital on Jan. 29, killing 67 people. A medical transportation plane crashed in Philadelphia on Jan. 31, killing the six people on board and another person on the ground.
ALASKA PLANE CRASH BERING AIR FATALITIES RECOVERY EFFORTS WINTER STORM
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