U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola’s husband has died in an airplane crash in western Alaska, the latest fatality involving politicians or their loved ones in the nation’s largest state where flights are common because of a limited road system.
“We are devastated to share that Mary’s husband, Eugene Peltola Jr. - ‘Buzzy’ to all of us who knew and loved him - passed away earlier this morning following a plane accident in Alaska,” her chief of staff, Anton McParland, said in the statement issued Wednesday morning.
The Alaska Rescue Coordination Center dispatched an Alaska Air National Guard rescue team to the site, arriving early Wednesday morning, but troopers said Peltola had died before they arrived. The Alaska Rescue Coordination Center received an emergency locator transmitter signal at 8:48 p.m. Tuesday, 18 minutes after sunset, Homendy said.
Werba and his wife, Connie, own Alaska Pike Safaris and Wilderness Adventures, which offers trophy brown bear and moose hunts and pike fishing in western Alaska.Condolence poured in for Peltola, a former Alaska regional director for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, a longtime employee of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, a city council member in Bethel and an Alaska Native leader.
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