Alaska rescue units had a hell of week: 3 planes, 2 countries and 1 stuck helicopter
Military rescue units in Alaska all pitched in to respond to three plane crashes, an avalanche victim, and a stuck helicopter ...
After breaking both legs and shattering his ‘invincibility complex’ in a crash, freeskier Kai Jones returned to ‘ground zero’
The pain was like nothing Kai Jones had experienced before, so intense and overwhelming that he felt on the cusp of ...
This 100-year-old Toronto man wants to break the world record for oldest person to helicopter ski
Gordon Precious previously held the record for oldest heliskier when he was 94 years old. A few years later, a 95-year-old ...
Lack of snow north of the Alaska Range prompts Iditarod to move official start to Fairbanks
A lack of snow along a dangerous stretch of trail has led organizers of the world’s most famous sled dog race to move the ...
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner1d
UAF’s Ben Dohlby and Kendall Kramer win 10-kilometer races at UAF Ski Invite
The University of Alaska Fairbanks ski team hosted its second meet of the season on its new competition trails and the first ...
Peninsula Clarion on MSN1d
Soldotna girls, boys sweep festive borough ski meet
The Soldotna girls and boys cross-country skiing teams swept the Kenai Peninsula Borough meet team titles Saturday at ...
Bozeman Daily Chronicle1d
Montana State's Anna Pryce and Katey Houser show well at Alaska Fairbanks Invitational
Montana State senior Anna Pryce put together four outstanding races in the classic sprints on Sunday as the University of Alaska Fairbanks Invitational began at the Competition trails on the ...
The Washington Post5d
3D analysis shows how helicopter pilots could have mixed up jets in DCA crash
On the night of Jan. 29, an Army Black Hawk helicopter collided with an American Airlines passenger jet over the Potomac River in Washington, killing all 67 people on both aircraft. To analyze ...
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Black Hawk helicopter’s altimeter may have been inaccurate, pilots may have missed some calls from control tower
A preliminary analysis of the flight data and voice recorder on board a Black Hawk helicopter leading up to the collision with a commercial flight over Washington, DC, on January 29, indicated the ...
The Boston Globe4d
Helicopter crew in collision with plane may not have heard key instruction from tower, NTSB says
WASHINGTON (AP) — The crew of the Army helicopter that collided in midair with an American Airlines jet near Washington, D.C.’s Ronald Reagan National Airport may have had inaccurate altitude ...