Officials have identified the two men that died Wednesday when their Piper PA-18 aircraft crashed in a ravine in the southwest preserve of Denali National Park and Preserve on the Yentna River.
According to National Park Service officials, the plane piloted by 45-year-old Jason Tucker of Wasilla was carrying Chugiak resident Nicolas Blace, 44, as a passenger at the time of the crash. Neither of the men survived.
“Our thoughts are with the families and loved ones of those involved as we work through this response,” Merrell said. The stranded hunter was picked up by Alaska State Troopers, who learned he had been hunting with Blace and flying with Tucker. Tucker had intended to drop Blace off at an airstrip on the Dillinger River, near the park’s boundaries, and then return to pick up the second hunter. Authorities say there is no evidence Tucker and Blace ever made it to that stop, including no fresh landing tracks, and no communications from either Tucker or Blace, who carried a satellite device as well.
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