Missing 1900

Bodies of pilot, copilot pulled from wreckage northeast of Dillinghamcasey.grove@adn.com (CASEY GROVE) 03/09/2013 12:25 PM Searchers found a crashed commercial cargo plane northeast of Dillingham early Saturday and pulled the bodies of an Anchorage pilot and copilot from the wreckage. The Ace Air Cargo Beechcraft 1900 went down Friday morning about 20 miles from Dillingham, in Southwest Alaska. Alaska Air National Guard rescuers in a helicopter and plane searched that afternoon, unable to find the crash site in thick clouds and snowfall later that night. Early Saturday, a crew spotted the plane broken into three parts, spokespersons for the Guard and Alaska State Troopers said. The HH-60 Pavehawk helicopter landed about 6 a.m., and its crew recovered two bodies. Troopers identified the pilot as Jeff Day, 38, and the copilot as Neil Jensen, 21. Both were Anchorage residents. The men were flown to Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson and taken to the state medical examiner's office in Anchorage, troopers said. The twin-engine plane was making the flight from King Salmon to Dillingham, about 70 miles to the northwest, Friday morning, according to Todd Erickson, Ace Air Cargo's acting director of operations. Erickson declined to comment on how long the men had worked for Ace or if the plane was loaded with cargo on the flight. The Beechcraft failed to land after its crew announced its approach to the airport in Dillingham, so the Federal Aviation Administration issued an alert that it was overdue about 8:30 a.m. Friday. At about 9:15 a.m., an emergency locator beacon started transmitting from the Muklung Hills, 20 miles northeast of Dillingham, troopers said. A trooper spokeswoman described the area as mountainous.

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:( That's really sad to hear. May they rest in peace. My prayers go out to the families of those involved.
 
That is super sad.... I used to work in King for PenAir and it seemed that stuff happens more often then it should. ACE had a beech 19 go down out of Sand Point a few years ago. Due to unrelated issues, maybe, but regardless we pushed the envelope up there so much for just a simple piece of mail, like they do. It's always just a matter of time.. You talk to the veteran pilots up there and most of them have crashed a plane at some point in their career. It seems, it's not a matter of if your going to crash, it may be a matter of when. It's sad to see young pilots with hopes and dreams go down in the bush.

May they RIP.
 
Awful, terrible. Just a few years younger than me... Rest in Peace Neil and Jeff.
 
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