Alaska officials say that all four people on a helicopter that crashed into a remote lake near the city of Utqiaġvik have died.
Search and rescue divers recovered the bodies of a helicopter pilot and three Alaska state scientists Sunday from the sunken wreckage of their aircraft, which went down last week in a shallow lake on the remote North Slope.Alaska officials confirmed Sunday that all four people on a helicopter that crashed into a remote lake near the city of Utqiaġvik died.
The state Department of Natural Resources identified them as employees Ronnie Daanen, Justin Germann and Tori Moore. Pilot Tony Higdon also died, it said.The crash happened about 7 p.m. Thursday roughly 51 miles south-southwest of Utqiaġvik, which claims to be the northernmost city in the U.S. It was formerly known as Barrow.
The Department of Natural Resources said the three state employees, described as geological survey workers, were conducting field research from the air when the aircraft went down in the large, shallow lake.Fog was the predominant weather feature in the region the evening of the crash, according to the National Weather Service.of Anchorage reported that the aircraft was a Bell 206L-4 operated by Maritime Helicopters in Homer.
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