Remembering Lifeguard N141LG

On the evening of Monday, December 3rd, 2007, LifeGuard Alaska's communications center received the most disconcerting call: no call at all. LifeGuard One, the BK-117 helicopter stationed at Central Peninsula Hospital in Soldotna, was en route from Cordova to Anchorage with a patient. On board were Pilot Lance Brabham, Flight Paramedic Cameron Carter, Flight Nurse John Stumpff, and patient Gaye McDowell. The crew made a position report at 5:18pm, reporting that they were over Esther Island in the northwest corner of Prince William Sound, and that they would arrive in Anchorage in 27 minutes. They gave no indication of any trouble and had been reporting clear weather throughout their flight.

From Alaska Medical Missions

It has been a year now, and the aircraft remains unrecovered. One body and some wreckage was found in the surf a few days after the flight went missing, but since then--nothing.

Time has closed over LN141LG as surely as the cold, deep waters of Prince William Sound.