Posted on 02/06/2025 9:03:51 PM PST by hardspunned
A Bering Air flight with 10 people onboard went missing near Nome, Alaska, while en route from Unalakleet. Search efforts are underway.
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Unalakleet - That’s where that reality show, Flying Wild Alaska, was based.
Not good................
AVIATION Ping................
Ground search only at present, weather too bad for air search.
Plane apparently circled to wait for runway at Nome to be cleared.
Possibilities: Icing, fuel exhaustion, pilot disorientation.
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*A nominally dual-piloted aircraft, operated by a single pilot, and with nine commercial passengers on board, flying in dicey winter weather. Safety Guy says, “Stupidity looking for victims.”
~150 miles from Ulalakleet to Nome. ~55 minutes flight time.
That’s three in one week.
One report says last position about 100miles north of Nome.
Any mountains around there ?
Sounds very wx related.
Agenda-Free is covering this live now on YouTube - 14k viewers
An HC-130 is enroute to help with SAR, but it’s been over 5 hours, no sign of the Cessna Caravan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDX5FfOh5Cs
Ah, the Unalakleet Triangle!
That guy also died flying somewhere.
I live in Alaska and I’m a pilot with about 20,000 hours so I know a little. The route between Unalakleet and Nome is flat, why they would be 100 miles north of Nome when Unalakleet is south of nome is beyond me. North of Nome on the Seward peninsula there are some rolling mountains but nothing like the mountains we have in the Alaska range and further south. I’ve flown many approaches into Nome, I’ve always been amazed by the type of weather that pilots are flying in that I have no business being out there. Into Nome on one occasion I was held at a fix prior to starting the instrument approach because they were releasing what is called a “Special VFR’”s. When that is taking place there is only supposed to be one aircraft in the controlled airspace at a time. Finally, I was cleared for the approach. The approach took me down to 300 feet AGL (above ground level) and when I went to minimums I never saw the runway. The same or fork that I guys leaving that we’re not using instrument flying. I ended up going around and turn back for Elmendorf Air Force Base. Just one experience of many I had going in there.
Thoughts and prayers to all involved.
Beautiful downtown Unalakleet~~~Morning mid-winter radio broadcast.
I think Alaska has twice the number of pilots that California or Texas has. I’m not implying this caused this crash but do you ever see any cowboy or incompetent pilots up there? Does the state have the resources to properly supervise all those pilots over such a vast area?
Downed by UFOs and eaten by Bigfoot. Helluva way to go.
I’ve flown on Bering air caravans many years all around the Seward Peninsula. I’ve also been on snow machines & on foot in those mountains in the winter and summer. The wind in some places never stops. Prayers for the passengers and crew, its some rough country, if they manage to survive a crash they need to be found soon.
Speaking of missing planes in Alaska, they still haven’t found Hale Boggs, have they? Looks like there is an Alaska state senator that has never been found, either.
And on Twitter the Leftists are all blaming all of the aviation accidents on Trump, of course.
Coast says no survivors.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/coast-guard-no-survivors-in-crash-of-alaska-plane-carrying-10-people-heres-what-we-know-213701277.html
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