The National Park Service said it is now shifting from rescue to recovery efforts. The NTSB Alaska chief said survival was unlikely based on the crash’s remote location and rudimentary photos of the site.
A pilot and passenger from Texas were identified Saturday as the two people on board a planethat’s now presumed to have crashed in a glaciated, mountainous area near the Gulf of Alaska while en route to Ketchikan.
The Park Service said in a statement that it was switching from rescue to recovery efforts “because of the elapsed time since the crash and continued poor weather conditions.”“We are presuming this accident resulted in two fatalities, but we defer to the Park Service to make that confirmation,” said Clint Johnson, chief of the Alaska branch of the National Transportation Safety Board.
The plane, a Beechcraft Bonanza B-36 en route to Ketchikan, was first reported overdue around noon Aug. 27. It left Glennallen just before 9 a.m. that day, and the aircraft’s final communication came about 18 miles inland of Cape Yakataga, troopers have said.airplane wreckage in a “heavily glaciated” area north of the summit of Mount Leeper, in the southern part of Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, the Park Service said.
Where the wreckage was found — about 9.5 miles north-northwest of the missing plane’s last known location — indicates that it’s a likely match for the missing plane, Park Service spokeswoman Carrie Wittmer said in an email.
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