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Alaskan Greiner Family Lost in Cessna Crash

What: Lonn D. Greiner’s Cessna 180 en route from Birchwood to Seldovia
Where: Alaska
When: May 27, 2011
Who: 5 aboard
Why: Not long after a successful takeoff, the nose of the cessna pitched up, then it banked and fell. Witnesses say that the engine sounded fine.

The cessna crashed on train tracks, resulting in a fire. All 5 aboard were killed in the crash. The Alaska Railroad shut down the tracks until the wreckage was removed.

All aboard were members of the Greiner family from the Anchorage suburb of Eagle River. Lonn Greiner, 46, from Eagle River; three of his children, Glory, 13, Nathan, 11, and Grace, 10; and his 69-year-old mother, Carolyn Greiner. They were on a Memorial Day holiday.

Greiner performed jet maintenance at Ted Stevens Anchorage International.

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