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AK Float Plane Crash Survivors Flown To Seattle Med

What: Southeast Aviation DeHavilland Beaver
Where: Ketchikan AK
When: March 13, 2012
Who: Two injured
Why: Alaska State Troopers have identified the two men, 64-year-old Ketchikan pilot Ernest Robb and 56-year-old Vancouver passenger Murray Richardson, injured in the float plane crash in the Niblack Mine area 30 miles SW of Ketchikan near Prince of Wales Island

Responders included Alaska State Troopers, Ketchikan Volunteer Rescue Squad, Temsco Helicopters, and Guardian Flight Services after a Good Samaritan vessel spotted the wreckage off the beach. Guardian flight services first flew the injured men to Ketchikan Peace Health Medical Center then to Seattle’s Harbor View Medical Center. Initial investigation revealed that weather conditions were zero visibility with heavy snow, factoring into the accident.

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