The U.S. Coast Guard on Wednesday suspended the search in waters off Alaska for an overdue helicopter piloted by the former head of Alaska s largest tribal health care organization, who resigned last week after allegations of sexual misconduct surfaced against him.
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Print article Andy Teuber, a prominent Alaska health CEO as well as a tourism business owner, is presumed dead after he disappeared in a small single-engine helicopter over the Gulf of Alaska on Tuesday. Teuber, 52, took off from Anchorage’s Merrill Field that afternoon knowing the Anchorage Daily News was working on a story detailing allegations by a former assistant against him that prompted his sudden resignation last week as head of Alaska’s largest tribal health organization. The Daily News has not been able to establish the specific purpose of Teuber’s flight on Tuesday. An attorney representing him declined to comment when reached by phone.
The Coast Guard suspended its search for a missing helicopter reportedly piloted by Andy Teuber on Wednesday afternoon near Kodiak.Â
Teuber was flying from Anchorage in a black and white Robinson R66 helicopter. His last known location on Tuesday afternoon was approximately 66 nautical miles northeast of Kodiak.
The Coast Guard deployed three MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter aircrews and an HC-130 Hercules airplane crew from Air Station Kodiak, as well as the crew of Coast Guard Cutter Stratton.Â
Watchstanders at the Coast Guard Sector Anchorage command center received notification from a family member at 5 p.m. on Tuesday that Teuber left Merrill Field Airport at 2:09 p.m. with intentions of traveling to Kodiak.
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