Four people found dead in Denali flightseeing crash, and the fifth is presumed dead
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| A view of Thunder Mountain (courtesy of the National Park Service) |
The bodies of four people were found by a National Park Service ranger Monday morning in the wreckage of a flightseeing plane that crashed near Denali Saturday, according to an update.
A fifth person was not found but is presumed dead, the park service said.
Rangers took advantage of a "brief window of clearing weather" to spot the wreckage for the first time since the plane went down at about 6 p.m. Saturday, the park service said in an alert.
A ranger was suspended beneath the helicopter and "dug through the snow that had filled the aircraft and found the bodies of four of the five passengers," the agency said. "There were no footprints or disturbances leading away from the site and there were no other signs to indicate any of the passengers made it out of the plane."
The weather has since closed back in, making additional efforts to find the fifth person impossible for now, park service spokeswoman Katherine Belcher said.
9 comments:
Very sad. The weather is always like that there, though, if I remember right.
Yes, it is. And yes, it is.
Thoughts and prayers for the victims, and their families. What I heard on the news doesn't sound good at all.
No survivors; that's as bad as it gets. Very sad.
Reverend, does the weather turn that quickly? I cannot imagine a pilot heading into the kind of weather that would bring a small plane down willingly.
TB, yes it can. But in this case, more likely to have been a wind shear or something like that.
So sad.
Condolences and prayers sent to the families...
Sad. And stupid... Sorry to be blunt.
drjim, I can only join with you.
NFO, agreed. And please don't apologize for telling the truth.
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