Samuel Wright of Haines and Yakutat residents Tanya Hutchins and Hans Munich were en route from Juneau to Yakutat on Saturday.
Search efforts continued in Southeast Alaska on Monday for a Haines man and two Yakutat residents missing after the plane they were on was
Samuel Wright, of Haines, flew to Juneau on Saturday in his 1948 Beechcraft Bonanza and departed around 1:45 p.m. with Hans Munich and Tanya Hutchins onboard, said Lt. Cmdr. Mike Salerno, spokesman for the 17th Coast Guard District. The plane was headed to Yakutat, where Munich and Hutchins live, Salerno said. A friend of one of the three reported the plane overdue around 5:40 p.m., Salerno said. The friend told authorities they had beenThe flight was not operating as a charter, Salerno said. He did not have details about how the people may have known each other.
Hutchins and Munich are owners of Coastal Air Service in Yakutat. Munich is an experienced pilot who has flown for more than 36 years, the businessSunday with assistance from a good Samartian aircraft and a U.S. Air Force plane. The search was suspended overnight and resumed Monday, focused in the mountain range, Salerno said.
“The altitude of some of the cloud heights has been a factor in some of the search efforts, and what I understand is that there is a weather window today, so they want to keep flying and try to see through some of the cloud breaks,” he said.Tess Williams is a reporter focusing on breaking news and public safety. Before joining the ADN in 2019, she was a reporter for the Grand Forks Herald in North Dakota. Contact her at [email protected].
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