Search ends for victims after mid-air Alaska tour planes crash; probe begins
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Searchers found the bodies of the last two Alaska seaplane crash victims on Tuesday evening, after a hunt through the debris and frigid waters following a mid-air collision that killed six people and injured 10, officials said.
The dead, three men and three women, ranged in age from 37 to 62, officials said. All the dead were identified late on Tuesday, and 14 of those on board the planes were American. U.S. Coast Guard crew searches for survivors from downed aircraft in the vicinity of George Inlet near Ketchikan, Alaska, U.S., May 13, 2019. Picture taken May 13, 2019. Courtesy photo by Ryan Sinkey/U.S. Coast Guard/Handout via REUTERS
Three of the injured were in serious condition and seven in fair condition, Dr Peter Rice, medical director of the PeaceHealth Ketchikan Medical Center, told a separate news conference. “We still have to recover the planes and then we have to look at those,” she said. “It takes some significant work to really understand how the two came together.”
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