Update on Aircraft Crash on Yukon Island

Update on airplane crash from Homer News.

It sounds like Jennifer is out of danger but has a long recovery ahead of her. Reading the news story reinforced my feeling that there was a lot of serendipidy involved. Had this happened "around the corner"--south of Seldovia--there would have been fewer people close at hand. Had it happened one or two minutes later, the plane would have been over the middle of the bay. As Denny said, there is only one beach on Yukon Island that you could put a plane on, and the tide was out.

As bad as it is, it could have easily been so much worse...


One of the local TV stations had an interview with the survivor who is in the hospital in Homer, which was quoted in the Anchorage Daily News:

‘The pilot Jen told us we could scream if we wanted.’

KTUU interviews one of the passengers injured when a short flight from Seldovia to Homer crashed on Tuesday.

Nanwalek resident Teresa Cook told the station what it was like inside the plane moments before pilot Jennifer Foltz attempted a crash landing.

The plane was approaching Homer when the engine sputtered, Cook said. The passengers began to panic and pray.

She told KTUU: “The lady next to me, we were holding each other and I was crossing myself and saying the lord's prayer and she was saying amen right after and the pilot Jen told us we could scream if we wanted and all she told us that she landed on beaches before, and everything is going to be okay.”

Cook was pregnant, the station reports, but lost her baby in the crash.