No one injured in floatplane crash in Coffman Cove
Posted by Maria Dudzak | Jul 9, 2021
A floatplane crashed during takeoff from the Prince of Wales Island community of Coffman Cove Friday morning. No injuries were reported.
Clint Johnson is the head of the National Transportation Safety Board’s Alaska office.
“The flight was on departure, headed back to Ketchikan. During departure from the water, the airplane struck what they are referring to as an inlet float or buoy, and the airplane subsequently … nosed over and ended upside down,” Johnson said in a phone interview.
Johnson says the pilot was the only person aboard.
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ANCHORAGE (AP) â Alaska State Troopers have recovered the bodies of two people who died in the crash of a small plane, which federal investigators said may have broken up in midair.
Troopers and National Park Service Rangers arrived Saturday at the site in Wrangell-St Elias National Park where the Cessna 185 single-engine propeller plane went down Thursday.
The National Transportation Safety Board said the flight operated by Copper Valley Air Service carried a pilot and one passenger, who were both killed.
The names of the crash victims were not immediately made public. Their bodies were taken to the state medical examiner s office for identification.