A Haines-based pilot and two Yakutat residents who owned an air service died in the crash of the Beechcraft Bonanza in late July.
Updated: 23 seconds agoA view of Mount Crillon, in the Fairweather Range in Southeast Alaska, from a small plane.
The plane crashed into the east side of Mount Crillon, one of the higher mountains of the coastal Fairweather Range, authorities said, describing the area as vertical rock and snow-covered terrain punctuated by hanging glaciers and crevasses. The preliminary report says that an aerial search on Aug. 5 revealed “portions of highly fragmented airplane wreckage” at about 6,200 feet — more than 4,500 feet below the area where authorities believed the plane initially crashed, according to the federal report.Authorities had previously not announced the location of any wreckage, though they said earlier this month that aThe discovery of the plane came more than two weeks after the U.S.
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