Southeast Alaska’s aviation community continued the search after official efforts were called off.
On the day Sam Wright , Hans Munich and Tanya Hutchins disappeared in the Fairweather Range , Haines pilot Drake Olson was doing much-needed maintenance on one of the three airplanes in his hangar.
“I got a picture from Tanya from the backseat of Sam’s Bonanza as they were departing Juneau,” Olson said. “I put it together hurriedly. Thoroughly, but hurriedly,” he said. “I think I left around 7 and I was out until after 10. I was so tired and fatigued that I was like ‘I’m a bloody hazard out here. I’ve got to go home.”
The flight tracking stopped at about 10,000 feet in a specific location near Mount Crillon at the southern end of the Fairweather Mountain Range. So official and unofficial searchers combed the area.. That left people like Olson, Haines pilot Mike Mackowiak, Clayton Jones, and others from Alaska Seaplanes and Temsco helicopters to
The trio were well-respected, so that explains some of the private effort, but Olson and others also said there’s something of a code in the tight-knit aviation community. Both Olson and Mike Wright, Sam Wright’s son, said they were frustrated by the way the news reporting impacted people connected to the missing and the private search.
The story was later quietly corrected to say that the discovery of a potential crash site was “one of the factors,” that prompted the suspension. But there was no indication in the story that a correction had happened until a week later. “The impact that it has is that people, when people have lost anything – a person or a possession – there’s a lot of hope and when hope starts to get fulfilled falsely then it creates a second wave of tragedy when they find out that it was an untruth,” Wright said.
The report details that a private search of the accident site revealed portions of the plane wreckage on the eastern side of East Crillon Mountain at just over 6,000 feet, some 4,500 feet below where the plane is believed to have crashed into the mountain.Drake Olson on an unnamed glacier between Haines and Skagway. Olson has carved out a unique niche in Southeast Alaska ferrying adventurers into the little-traveled mountains around Haines. On the morning of Aug.
So, he descended and landed on a nearby beach. He walked in the warm sand, ate some food and took a nap. With that attitude – and the idea that he may never return to searching again – he really started to catalog his surroundings. “It was like a mystery every time. Every time I circled, I wasn’t sure I was going to see it again” he said.
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