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Australians Killed in Alaska Crash

What: LNP Saratoga Inc. Piper Saratoga was en route from Fort Yukon to Fairbanks
Where: Alaska
When: July 18, 2012 5 PM
Who: 2 aboard
Why: A plane owned by LNP Saratoga Inc and eased to the West Valley Flying Club of Palo Alto. disappeared from radar in Alaska on July 18.

The Air National Guard’s 210th and 212th Rescue Squadrons were deployed and discovered the wreckage. Alaska State Troopers identified the 64-year-old pilot Stephen Knight and 60-year-old Gillian Knight of Queensland, Australia.

The pilots had been engaged in filing a “pop-up” Instrument Flight Rules Plan. The cloud cover was low.

Two other planes had been flying with the wrecked plane but each with a different route. The wreckage was located 63 kilometres north of Fairbanks.

Visibility hampered recovery operations on Wednesday but now the remains have been recovered and sent for autopsy by the state medical examiner’s office.

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