Taquan Air, the company whose planes were involved in 2 deadly crashes in Alaska in a week, says it has suspended operations.
Taquan Air, the company whose planes were involved in two deadly crashes in Alaska in a week, said Tuesday that it had suspended operations.
"As you can imagine, the past 24 hours have been incredibly overwhelming, and we are reeling from not only the incident yesterday, but also from last week," Taquan Air"Our priority has been our passengers and their families and our internal staff and pilots. We have voluntarily suspended all of our operations until further notice," said the air carrier, which calls itself one of the most successful float plane operations in Alaska.
The plane’s right wing struck the water, and the plane ended up upside-down partially submerged, Johnson said. "The boats in the area obviously responded, tried to get the folks out," Johnson said."Unfortunately, that didn't work out."Police identified the pilot as Ron Rash, 51, from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. His passenger was 31-year-old epidemiologist Sarah Luna, the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium confirmed Tuesday. Luna was an working with the ANTCH.
The Taquan plane, a de Havilland Otter, in that incident was descending from between 3,800 to 4,000 feet to around 3,300 feet over the course of several miles — something the NTSB has said was not abnormal — and the Mountain Air plane, a de Havilland Beaver, was flying around 3,300 feet before they collided.Taquan has said that only one of the 10 passengers aboard its plane died. The pilot also survived. The Mountain Air plane had four passengers and a pilot aboard, officials have said.
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