Troopers identified Rodney Murdock, 73, of Kodiak and Byron Chitwood, 91, of Texas as the two people killed in Sunday’s Kodiak Island air taxi crash that also seriously injured three others.
The town of Old Harbor is visible during a flight over Kodiak Island on May 14, 2019.
Murdock started Alpha Appliance Repair on Mill Bay Road in Kodiak in 2013, according to state business records. City Mayor Pat Bransonthat plans for a celebration-of-life ceremony for Murdock are underway. The passengers were heading from the Kodiak Sportsman’s Lodge in Old Harbor back to Kodiak when the crash occurred that afternoon, according to Clint Johnson, the chief of the National Transportation Safety Board’s Alaska office. The Coast Guard responded the the crash by helicopter and flew the injured survivors to the Kodiak Airport, and from there, they were taken to medical facilities for treatment.
Authorities haven’t publicly identified the other individuals involved, aside from Murdock and Chitwood. But the Herald-Banner
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