What: Cessna 150 en route from Anchorage to Beluga Lake
Where: west side of Cook Inlet, Beluga Lake Alaska
When: June 26, 2011
Who: 2 aboard, 1 fatality
Why: Pilot Timothy Hudok was killed in his Cessna three miles west of Beluga Lake. The wreckage was found by Alaskan State Troopers at Triumvirate Glacier after the pilot’s wife had alerted the FAA to the flight being overdue. Passenger Robert Goodwill who survived was airlifted to Providence Alaska Medical center.
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