Officials have identified the four people killed in a helicopter crash on Alaska’s North Slope as North Pole pilot Bernard “Tony” Higdon, 48; Ronald Daanen, 51, of Fairbanks; Justin Germann, 27, of Fairbanks; and Tori Moore, 26, of South Bend, Indiana.
This photo provided by North Slope Borough shows an aerial view of a shallow lake where a helicopter crashed on Alaska's North Slope near Utqiagvik on Thursday.
The 1996 Bell 206 helicopter, which was operated by Maritime Helicopters, crashed Thursday while transporting state employees conducting fieldwork in the area, troopers said in anSunday. The aircraft crashed in a lake near Wainwright, about 50 miles south of Utqiagvik. The Alaska Department of Natural Resources said in a social media post Sunday that Daanen, Germann and Moore worked in the state’s Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys and were doing field survey work outside Utqiaġvik.
Volunteers with the Alaska Dive Search, Rescue, and Recovery Team arrived at the crash site around 10:45 p.m. Saturday and recovered the deceased individuals around 6 a.m. Sunday, with assistance from the North Slope Borough police and search and rescue team, troopers said.The bodies of the deceased were flown to Utqiagvik for identification and will be autopsied by the State Medical Examiner’s Office, troopers said.
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