A famed Alaska bush pilot’s plane struck a tree while departing an airstrip last month near Shaktoolik, then crashed into tundra below, killing both people onboard, a National Transportation Safety Board report said.
Photos of Jim Tweto are shown during a slideshow at the Alaska Aviation Museum during a memorial for Jim Tweto on June 20, 2023. Tweto died in a plane crash in Western Alaska on June 16.
who was dedicated to rural Alaska. He had landed and departed from the same airstrip where the June 16 crash took place many times in the past, said Clint Johnson, the chief of Alaska’s NTSB office.said. Tweto was operating a charter flight for Golden Eagle Outfitters and planned to make three trips to pick up a group of bear hunters and their gear, the report said.
The report also said, “a helicopter pilot who responded to the accident site about 45 minutes after the accident said that the winds were ‘unusual’ that day.”
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