how many were rescued? how many simply disapered foever. what was the longest time between crash and rescue who, and when and where in alaska? details please?
2006-08-28 11:08:34 · 4 answers · asked by houdini 3 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Aircraft
Some semi-educated guesses:
Down: a few thousand (several each week for 40-50 years now, less the duplicates). My doc's uncle has gone down 5 times, for instance. I'm using "downed" broadly here - an unplanned, off-airport landing with some damage to the plane. Maybe just radio for some parts to be dropped, cobble the landing gear back together and fly off the gravel bar and never file an FAA report.
Rescued: If you don't count overshooting the runway and walking back to hanger? Nor when a good position report went out and the CG or NG fly straight to the crash site (20 of those each year). There's a big CAP search maybe 10 times a year.
Never found? Cook Inlet is great for that - just lost three souls a month ago. Somebody will probably find a wing rib or something on a beach two years from now but never know what it came from. Something like happens 4 times a year, entirely GA planes. They never stop looking for commercial planes when they go down and they are IFR with so there's a decently small search radius.
Longest survival time? I'll ask the most trivia oriented pilot I know up here and try to post it as a comment later. A year ago, somebody was on a beach for 4 days (deviated from his flight plan) and then humped through the woods to unoccupied buildings for a total of 6 days. URL below.
See if you can search NTSB on-line files with "alaska" as a keyword. Then multiple by the missing by 150%. And the non- and minor-injury accidents by about 600%. I can only think of one friend who got into the NTSB files (carb iced on take-off in a floatplane, came down in the trees, made the newspaper). Most just repair the damage, keeping flying, screw the paperwork.
2006-09-01 07:46:24 · answer #1 · answered by David in Kenai 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well houdini, I hate to bust ya bubble, but for acurate info like that, you would have to spend a lot of time and research, and still would'nt be right as some of these downings would not have been reported. I suggest that you take a quarter of that time to go to night school and study english grammer and then do some research yourself. Also a little study on geography would help too!!!
2006-09-01 06:58:04 · answer #2 · answered by tanner 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you won't get much info this way, try sufing some historical sites on Alaska and aircraft accidents
2006-08-28 18:11:24 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
324 but two were drinking busch while flying
2006-08-28 20:35:13 · answer #4 · answered by Dport 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋