Missing People in Alaska
This is an updated list of people missing from in and around Alaska. Missing persons in Alaska are listed below.
Alaska
#StillMissing Pilot Patrick Coyle, flight nurse Stacie Rae Morse and flight paramedic Margaret Langston.
3/19/19
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Searchers have recovered the cockpit voice recorder and found other parts of an air ambulance that disappeared in Alaska with three people on board in January, the owners of the aircraft said Tuesday.
A landing gear and engine of the King Air 200 also were located in the same waters of Frederick Sound, Guardian Flight said in an initial release. The company later said an underwater search team located additional aircraft parts on Tuesday, including the tail assembly, fragmented fuselage, propeller blades and wing fragments.
Searchers estimate they found as much as 90 percent of the plane scattered over a large debris field in the waters of Frederick Sound, according to the Utah-based company. Guardian Flight said it plans to recover major pieces that could be useful in the investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board.
Clint Johnson, the NTSB’s Alaska chief, said options are being looked at for recovering airplane debris, but added plans have not been finalized.
“This is a work in progress,” he said.
An NTSB investigator was on board the recovery boat when the plane’s black box recorder was recovered Monday evening, and has possession of the black box, also known as a cockpit voice recorder, according to Johnson.
Guardian Flight said it continues its search for the bodies of the three people who disappeared Jan. 29 flying to pick up a patient in the southeast community of Kake.
Pilot Patrick Coyle, flight nurse Stacie Rae Morse and flight paramedic Margaret Langston were Guardian Flight employees based in Juneau.
“The families of our beloved crew members have been notified of these latest developments. We are hopeful that we will be able to recover their loved ones to aid them and the entire Guardian Flight team in grieving this tremendous loss,” Randy Lyman, the company’s operations vice president, wrote in a news release..
The Coast Guard searched hundreds of square miles (kilometers) before suspending the search Jan. 31.
An aircraft wing and other debris were found at the search site about 22 miles (35 kilometers) west of Kake near the last known position of the plane. Guardian Flight officials say they believe it was the missing plane.
The company initially grounded all of its 85 aircraft across the U.S. as a show of respect for the missing. It gradually re-started operations with aircraft based outside of Alaska.
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Searchers recover black box recorder of missing Alaska plane
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Searchers have recovered the cockpit voice recorder and found other parts of an air ambulance that disappeared in Alaska with three people on board in January, the owners of the aircraft said Tuesday5 days ago
#StillMissing Dashawn McCormick, then 3, has been officially missing since April 1, 2013. Anchorage, AK.
3/6/19
ANCHORAGE, AK — Dashawn McCormick has been officially missing since April 1, 2013. He was three years old when he vanished from his hometown of Anchorage, Alaska.
At the time, Dashawn lived with his father, Floyd Leroy Lee, Jr., and his stepmother, Mary Elizabeth Transki. Authorities noticed Dashawn was nowhere to be found when FBI agents arrived to arrest the couple for securities fraud and mail fraud. The quest to find Dashawn has continued unabated from that moment onward.
After getting busted, both Lee and Transki were convicted of defrauding Anchorage-area investors. Lee got sentenced to 37 months in jail. Neither Lee nor Transki, however, have offered any insight or information as to where Dashawn might be.
Jasmine McCormick, Dashawn’s mom, faced troubles of her own when she granted custody of her son to his father in 2012, a decision she has long come to regret.
Explaining how it happened, Jasmine said she was forced to flee Alaska to escape an abusive relationship, stating, “I had to make the choice to stay and die, or lose a child and leave and get the other children out of there. I wanted to take Dashawn with me, but I would’ve been put in prison. [Lee] had full custody. My son couldn’t leave the state.”
Even though 2013 is the officially recognized date of Dashawn’s disappearance, some accounts suggest he may have vanished even earlier. Judy Holmes, Dashawn’s step-grandmother, says the last time she saw the boy was on July 4, 2012.
What matters, though, is the search to find Dashawn today, and to let him know that his family is actively in pursuit of him and loves him very much.
In a letter to her son published by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Jasmine McCormick wrote: “Dashawn, if I could see you today I would wrap my arms around you and sing ‘Happy Birthday’ … Dashawn, I want you to know that I love you very, very much and I will never give up hope until you come home. Your brothers, sister, and I pray every night that you are safe and holding strong. We love you and miss, you Dashawn.”
The age-progressed photo shows what Dashawn may have looked like at age nine. He is currently 11 years old.
TRAITS & CHARACTERISTICS:
Weight at the time of his disappearance: 45 pounds
Height at the time of his disappearance: 3 feet, 6 inches
Sex: Male
Race: Biracial / Caucasian and black
Hair: Blond
Eyes: Brown
Current age: 11
Date of birth: August 17, 2007
Missing since: April 1, 2013
Scars/marks: burn mark on his leg and scar on the center of his forehead
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When Feds Showed Up To Arrest Dashawn McCormick’s Parents In 2013, He Was Gone
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The Alaska boy was three when went he went missing; the push to find the now-11-year-old Dashawn remains the top priority of the family that loves him.5 days ago
#Missing David Miller, 38 and Rex Iyatunguk, 37. left Teller, AK, at around noon Feb. 25 on a snowmobile.
3/6/19
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA (AP) — Alaska State Troopers are ending their participation in a search for two men missing on a snowmobile trip to Nome.
Trooper spokesman Tim DeSpain says searchers have looked "multiple times" for the men along the Blodgett Highway that runs between Teller and Nome with no luck.
The Anchorage Daily News reports 38-year-old David Miller and 37-year-old Rex Iyatunguk left Teller at around noon Feb. 25 on a snowmobile.
The trip to Nome generally takes two or three hours. The men were reported overdue that night.
Severe snowstorms with whiteout conditions hampered the search.
DeSpain says volunteer searchers will continue looking for the men.
Family members and friends of the missing men are using social media to seek food and supplies to support the search.
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Troopers End Their Search for Men Missing on Trip to Nome
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Alaska State Troopers are ending their participation in a search for two men missing on a snowmobile trip to Nome.3 weeks ago
#StillMissing Linda Skeek, 32, presumed dead. Jan. 1, 2016. Anchorage, AK.
2/26/19
Linda Skeek has been gone for more than three years now.
She is presumed dead: The 32-year-old’s family ran an obituary in the newspaper and held a memorial.
But her body has never been found. Now, her husband is on trial in Anchorage for her murder.
Thomas Skeek, 37, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of his wife, whom he’d been married to for more than eight years at the time of her disappearance on Jan. 1, 2016.
The case of the state of Alaska vs. Thomas Skeek represents a rare but not unheard of circumstance in Alaska’s courts: a murder trial in which the victim’s body has not been located.
Only a few such cases have been tried since the 1970s in Alaska.
His trial began Thursday in an Anchorage courtroom. It is expected to last for weeks.
Prosecutors contend that Thomas Skeek killed his wife in the early hours of Jan. 1, 2016, and disposed of her body, then reported her missing to police.
“The family has not even had a grave over which to mourn,” assistant district attorney Saritha Anjilvel told the jury during opening statements Thursday.
Thomas Skeek’s defense attorney told jurors that the state couldn’t even prove Linda Skeek was dead -- much less that her husband killed her.
“What happened to her after she walked off on New Year’s Day 2016 we may never know,” said Emily Cooper, an attorney with the Office of Public Advocacy. “But my client did not murder his wife.”
The night Linda Skeek went missing
The Skeeks were from Southeast Alaska and had been living in Juneau before moving to Anchorage in mid-2015.
Linda Skeek had gotten a good job at NANA Regional Corp., and the family had used some of her earnings to move into an apartment on Morningside Loop in South Anchorage, attorneys said. Linda worked while Thomas Skeek stayed home with the couple’s two elementary school-aged kids. Linda’s other daughter lived with her father in Juneau.
Behind the scenes, things were unraveling: The defense contends that Linda Skeek spent weekends drinking heavily, sometimes staying away from home for days at a time. Both Linda and her husband were having affairs.
“Her outward appearance of perfection was anything but once the weekends came around,” Cooper, the defense attorney, told the jury.
On New Year’s Eve, the family watched the movie “Minions” on a DVD player in their new Lincoln Navigator SUV and then watched fireworks downtown, prosecutors said.
From there, attorneys say surveillance footage captures Thomas Skeek dropping Linda off at various Anchorage bars while he and the kids waited in the car.
They returned to the Morningside Loop apartment after midnight.
Both sides agree that the couple argued when they returned home: The defense says Linda Skeek wanted to go back out to the bars, and her husband wouldn’t let her take the car because she had been drinking.
Linda walked angry and drunk into the snowy Anchorage night, where myriad dangers could have befallen her, Cooper told the jury.
Even after Thomas reported his wife missing, the Anchorage Police Department didn’t investigate the case for several days, Cooper said — crucial time that could have meant that additional surveillance video, physical evidence or suspects slipped away.
Cooper told jurors that the state lacks hard evidence that Linda Skeek is dead.
“This is still a missing person case,” Cooper told the jury.
Prosecutors contend Thomas Skeek killed his wife and then set about disposing of her body and cleaning up the mess. They told the jury that Skeek bought Clorox, ammonia and other cleaning products at Fred Meyer hours later that day.
A neighbor testified that she heard Thomas Skeek yelling that he’d kill his wife early on Jan. 1, before barging in the door.
There were sounds of a struggle and then thudding sounds, the neighbor told the jury.
Prosecutors said they would put out evidence to show that even though no body has been found, Linda Skeek was “gone without a trace.”
No-body homicide cases
There have been only a few no-body homicide cases taken to trial in Alaska in the past 30 years.
The state has retried several of them before getting convictions, or defendants have been found guilty on lesser charges.
In the 1980s, the state of Alaska twice tried a Kodiak oil worker named Jack Ibach and another man for the murder of Ibach’s ex-wife, Laura Henderson. The two were locked in a bitter custody battle over their children when Henderson disappeared. Her clothes and wallet washed up on a Kodiak beach. But her body was never found. The two men were sentenced to long prison terms.
In 2001, an alleged cocaine dealer from Kenai named Rocky Seaman was charged with the murder of his brother’s girlfriend, whose body was never found. A jury didn’t reach a decision on the murder charge but convicted him of conspiracy, sentencing him to more than 70 years in prison.
More recently, in 2003, Billy D. Smith was sentenced to 99 years in prison for the murders of Harold Enzler and Nancy Bellamy in Nikiski. Their bodies were never found. Prosecutors argued that he shot the couple to death, chopped up their bodies with an ax and tossed the remains into the ocean near Homer. It took three trials before he was found guilty, according to news reports from the time.
Lengthy trial
The trial is expected to be a lengthy one. Prosecutors spent Tuesday calling witnesses to establish simply that nobody had heard from Linda Skeek from Jan. 1, 2016, on.
On Tuesday, Thomas Skeek sat quietly at the defense table in a blue dress shirt and a tie. Members of Linda Skeek’s extended family, including her biological mother, foster mother and teenage daughter, watched parts of the trial. Several had flown in from Juneau. Family members declined to talk to a reporter, saying they didn’t want to influence the trial.
Testimony was emotional: Two sisters fought tears as they described how their usual routine of texting and Facebook messaging with Linda came to an abrupt end on New Year’s Eve.
Linda Skeek’s foster sister Nicole Robinson-Wells described the last time she talked with the sister she called her “best friend.”
On New Year’s Eve, they traded messages about Linda’s last Facebook posting, a photo of the children in the new SUV watching a movie on an interior DVD player: “Watching ‘Minions’ before the fireworks. It’s too cold for us to be outside. Spoiled little family,” she’d posted.
They talked again around midnight. But the next day, and the day after, there were no messages.
“Did you ever hear from her again?” asked Anjilvel, the assistant district attorney.
“No,” Robinson-Wells said.
The trial will resume Wednesday.
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2/21/19
SPOKANE, Wash. — A recent report places Washington among the top five states in the country with the most missing persons per capita.
The report from home security company Vivint says that Washington currently has 643 open missing persons cases, meaning there at 8.7 missing people for every 100,000 residents in the state.
Alaska is the No. 1 state with the most missing persons (41.8 people missing per 100,000 residents), followed by Arizona, Oregon, Washington and Vermont, according to Vivint.
California has the most missing persons in total, with 2,133 people missing, according to Vivint.
Idaho has 5.9 missing people for 100,000 residents, according to the report. It does not rank among the top states with the most or least missing people.
Vivint Source gathered data from the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System to compile the data. State populations reported came from the 2017 American Community Survey one-year estimates.
A missing person is defined as “anyone whose whereabouts are unknown whatever the circumstances of disappearance.” This can include a lost person, someone who has voluntarily gone missing or someone who is missing against their will.
According to NamUS, more than 600,000 people go missing each year in the United States, ranging from young children to older individuals.
Of the 15,207 people currently missing in the U.S., approximately 60 percent are male and 40 percent are female, according to Vivint. The average age of a missing person is 34.
As of Jan. 2019, there are 106 children missing who were younger than a year old when they went missing, according to Vivint.
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Washington among top 5 states with most missing persons per capita, report says
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The report says Washington currently has 643 open missing persons cases, meaning there 8.7 missing people for every 100,000 residents in the state.1 month ago
Human foot found West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. September, 2018.
2/14/19
At least 15 human feet have been found along the shores of a Canadian province over the past 12 years, according to a government news release. One was recently discovered in a shoe in West Vancouver, in September.
Now, the Coroners Service of British Columbia is seeking the public's help in determining who the foot belong to. The government office, which investigates deaths in the western Canadian province, said it belongs to a male believed to be younger than 50.
"This is the 15th human foot found on British Columbia shorelines since August 2007," the Coroners Service said this week in a news release.
The agency said the foot was inside a 9.5-size, light grey Nike shoe.
There's no reason for alarm, according to an official.
"One thing that we know is that these feet that are found — they're not linked to any sort of suspicious circumstance," said Coroners Service spokesperson Andy Watson, CBC reported. "I want to clear that up to make sure people are aware this isn't a cause for panic."
The agency released an infographic where — and when — all the feet have been found:
Several other human feet have also reportedly been discovered in the same region in Washington state in recent years.
2/14/19
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Margaret Allyson Langston, 43, Kake, Alaska.
January 29, 2019
Missing on board a Guardian King Air 200, N13LY. Last known coordinates are 57.1.45 N, 134.49.88 W. Also missing are Patrick Coyle and Stacie Morse.
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Sex
Female
Height
5' 4" (64 Inches)
Weight
150 lbs
Race / Ethnicity
White / Caucasian
NamUs Case Created
February 12, 2019
Hair Color
Brown
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Left Eye Color
Blue
Right Eye Color
Blue
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#Missing Stacie Rae Morse, 30, Kake, Alaska.
January 29, 2019
Missing on board a Guardian King Air 200, N13LY. Last known coordinates are 57.1.45 N, 134.49.88 W. Also missing are Margaret Langston and Patrick Coyle.
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Sex
Female
Height
5' 4" (64 Inches)
Weight
135 lbs
Race / Ethnicity
White / Caucasian
NamUs Case Created
February 12, 2019
Hair Color
Blond/Strawberry
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Left Eye Color
Blue
Right Eye Color
Blue
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I thought they passed away in plane
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#Missing Patrick Joseph Coyle, 63, Kake, Alaska. January 29, 2019
Missing on board a Guardian King Air 200, N13LY. Last known coordinates are 57.1.45 N, 134.49.88 W. Also missing are Margaret Langston and Stacie Morse.
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Sex
Male
Height
5' 10" (70 Inches)
Weight
205 lbs
Race / Ethnicity
White / Caucasian
NamUs Case Created
February 12, 2019
Hair Color
Blond/Strawberry
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Left Eye Color
Blue
Right Eye Color
Blue
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#Missing Ingvar Daniel Johansen, III, 28, Koliganek, Alaska. January 18, 2019
Missing after riding a snowmachine through the ice on a river about 3-4 miles south of Koliganek.
No photo provided.
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Sex
Male
Height
5' 10" (70 Inches)
Weight
255 lbs
Race / Ethnicity
American Indian / Alaska Native
NamUs Case Created
January 25, 2019
Hair Color
Black
Left Eye Color
Brown
Right Eye Color
Brown
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#StillMissing pilot Patrick Coyle, 63, flight nurse Stacie Rae Morse, 30, and flight paramedic Margaret Langston Allen, 43.
2/13/19
Two weeks after the loss of a Guardian Flight plane near Kake which left its crew of three missing and presumed dead, a signal from the wrecked aircraft has been discovered in nearby waters.
Clint Johnson, the National Transportation Safety Board’s Alaska chief, said a search vessel commissioned by aircraft operator Guardian Flight made the discovery Tuesday in waters off Kake. The U.S. Coast Guard suspended its search for the plane and its Juneau-based flight crew – pilot Patrick Coyle, 63, flight nurse Stacie Rae Morse, 30, and flight paramedic Margaret Langston Allen, 43 – after finding debris believed to be from the Beechcraft King Air 200.
Morse was pregnant when the plane went missing; the unborn baby was remembered as a fourth victim.
“They arrived on scene, the accident scene, first thing this morning,” Johnson said. “They put the acoustical locator equipment in the water and were able to detect a ping coming from the cockpit’s acoustical recorder.”
The duration of a plane’s underwater pinger varies by model, and Johnson said the one on the crashed plane was rated for 30 days. Tuesday’s discovery comes 14 days after the plane left Anchorage and was expected in Kake on the night of Jan. 29 – but never arrived.
“We wanted to get there before the battery and the pinger runs out,” Johnson said. “It appears we have done that.”
Guardian Flight has said depths in the six-square-mile search area, estimated with help from the NTSB, range from 300 to 1,000 feet. The company issued the following statement Tuesday afternoon:
We are confirming that the search efforts for Guardian Flight's missing crew and aircraft has taken a step forward. The underwater beacon ping from the cockpit voice recorder “black box” has been detected. There will now be efforts to narrow down its location through triangulation and to determine depth. We are hopeful that the Remotely Operated Underwater Vehicle (ROV) will assist in visually spotting the aircraft and be followed by successful recovery efforts. Again, our thoughts, prayers and deepest heartfelt feelings are extended to the families, friends and colleagues of our fellow crew members.
Tuesday’s development is the first step in preparing a subsequent voyage to examine and possibly recover the sunken plane. Johnson said the search vessel’s crew, with help from NTSB investigator Brice Banning, was attempting to determine the exact location and water depth.
“This is not the end of this, by any means; this is a very encouraging data point,” Johnson said. “Our intent is to locate the wreckage, put eyes on it, probably a [remotely operated vehicle].”
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Underwater signal found from missing Guardian Flight plane
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A search vessel commissioned by aircraft operator Guardian Flight made the discovery Tuesday in waters off Kake.1 month ago
Aircraft flying from Anchorage to Kake, Alaska reported missing. Three people on board. 1/29/19.
#Missing
The pilot is 63-year-old Patrick Coyle, the flight nurse is 30-year-old Stacie Rae Morse, and the flight paramedic is 43-year-old Margaret Langston Allen
1/30/19
KODIAK, ALASKA (AP) — The Latest on missing medical flight in Alaska (all times local):
6:35 p.m.
Guardian Flight, which operated the medical airplane that went missing in Alaska, has released the names of those onboard.
The pilot is 63-year-old Patrick Coyle, the flight nurse is 30-year-old Stacie Rae Morse, and the flight paramedic is 43-year-old Margaret Langston Allen. The company statement says all are based in Juneau.
Guardian Flight Randy Lyman says the company is focusing on the crewmembers' families during this difficult time.
The Coast Guard says the twin-engine King Air 200 took off from Anchorage on Tuesday and was expected to land in Kake but never arrived. A Guard spokeswoman says airplane debris was found Wednesday but the search continues because searchers could not immediately confirm the debris found Wednesday is that of the missing plane.
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4:45 p.m.
The Coast Guard in Alaska says airplane debris has been found during a search for a medical airplane that went missing with three people aboard.
Chief Petty Officer Charly Hengen says searchers could not immediately confirm the debris found Wednesday is of the missing King Air 200 plane operated by Guardian Flight. The debris was found about 22 miles west of the southeast Alaska village of Kake.
The Coast Guard says the twin-engine plane took off from Anchorage on Tuesday and was expected to land in Kake at 6:19 p.m. but never arrived.
Hengen says the search continues for the missing plane, despite the discovery of debris.
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11:50 a.m.
Federal accident investigators are reviewing radar flight information about a medical airplane that went missing with three people aboard who were heading to pick up a patient in an Alaska village.
Clint Johnson, chief of the National Transportation Safety Board in Alaska, says no clues have been immediately found in the electronic search Wednesday of archived data showing the flight pattern of the missing King Air 200 plane operated by operated by Guardian Flight.
The Coast Guard says the twin-engine plane took off from Anchorage on Tuesday and was expected to land in the southeastern community of Kake at 6:19 p.m. but never arrived.
Kake city administrator Rudy Bean says residents in a dozen boats searched Tuesday night for the plane, and some went back out to sea Wednesday.
Chief Petty Officer Charly Hengen says the search by boats and aircraft is focusing on an area 20 miles (32 kilometers) west of Kake.
The Coast Guard says Alaska state ferries also have joined in the search.
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9:50 a.m.
An official with a medical flight firm says the company's Alaska aircraft have been grounded while the Coast Guard searches for an overdue air ambulance with three people on board.
Guardian Flight spokesman Jim Gregory says the grounding of the aircraft gives company employees a chance to reflect on the three crew members and pray for them. A pilot, a nurse and a paramedic are aboard.
Gregory says the company initially grounded all aircraft across the U.S. but has gradually re-started operations with aircraft based outside of Alaska.
The Coast Guard says the King Air 200 plane operated by Guardian Flight took off from Anchorage on Tuesday and was expected to land in the tiny southeastern village of Kake at 6:19 p.m. but never arrived.
Chief Petty Officer Charly Hengen says the search by boats and aircraft is focusing on an area 20 miles (32 kilometers) west of Kake.
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2:45 a.m.
The Coast Guard in Alaska is searching for an overdue medical flight with three people aboard.
The Coast Guard says the King Air 200, operated by Guardian Flight, had taken off from Anchorage on Tuesday and was expected to land in Kake at 6:19 p.m., but never arrived.
A pilot, a nurse and a paramedic were aboard.
A Coast Guard vessel was sent to search near the aircraft's last known position.
Light rain was reported in the area.
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1/30/19
ANCHORAGE (KTUU) - 9 a.m. Update:
The search continues Wednesday morning for an ambulance aircraft with Guardian Flight which went missing Tuesday evening after failing to reach its scheduled destination in Kake.
Chief Charly Hengen with the U.S. Coast Guard public affairs office told KTUU early Wednesday that more crews are coming in to assist in the search in addition to the search personnel mobilized yesterday who would again be participating in the efforts.
"We're still conducting the search this morning. So far there are no reports of the aircraft being found from last night or into this morning," Hengen said.
The additional search units come from the Kake search and rescue team, Alaska State Troopers, Petersburg search and rescue, Alaska Air National Guard, and multiple U.S. Coast Guard cutters.
“With the assistance of our state and local partners and good Samaritan vessels, we will continue to search for the missing aircraft and individuals,” said Capt. Stephen White, Sector Juneau commander. “We have several Coast Guard assets diligently searching along with the invaluable assistance of the other rescue and volunteers, and we greatly appreciate their help.”
Guardian Flight initiated a stand down of the company's Alaska fleet until updates on the search are available, according to a post made on the company's Facebook page.
2:51AM CT January 30th 2019 Update
Original Story:
An aircraft with Guardian Flight air ambulance service is missing and a search is now underway, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.
The flight was en route from Anchorage to Kake Tuesday evening, but did not arrive as scheduled.
The Coast Guard says its watchstanders in Juneau received notification from Sitka Flight Services that a Guardian Flight King Air 200 medical life flight was expected to land in Kake at 6:19 p.m., but the aircraft never landed.
Coast Guard officials say there are three people on board, and search crews are looking in an area about 20 miles west of Kake.
The Coast Guard Cutter Anacapa is conducting the search near the last known position of the aircraft. Good Samaritan vessels are also searching the area, along with a Coast Guard helicopter based in Sitka.
“Coast Guard crews are diligently searching for the missing aircraft and individuals,” said Lt j.g. Colin McClelland, Coast Guard Sector Juneau command duty officer. “We appreciate the assistance of the good Samaritan vessels and we hope we locate the aircraft and people soon.” ��
In a written statement Tuesday night, Randy Lyman, Senior Vice President of Operations for the company wrote "The Guardian Flight family is devastated to report that a company aircraft flying from Anchorage to Kake, Alaska has been reported missing".
The company said three Guardian Flight employees, a pilot, nurse, and paramedic, were aboard the twin-engine plane.
"Our thoughts and prayers go out to our fellow employees and their families during this very trying time" wrote Lyman, who added that Guardian Flight has initiated a stand down of the company's entire fleet until further information is available.
Guardian Flight also said it will be cooperating fully with the National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration during the investigation.
The Coast Guard said weather in the area was reported as light rain with overcast skies, 10 miles visibility, 7 mph winds and an air temperature of 36 degrees.
This is a developing story. Check KTUU.com and Channel 2 News for updates.
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UPDATE: Search continues day after Alaska ambulance aircraft goes missing
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An aircraft with Guardian Flight air ambulance service is missing, and a search is now underway, according to the Coast Guard.2 months ago
My prayers go out.. but in 2019 and technology and knowledge of Alaska's weather makes me wonder about standard GPS tracking. Things tend to be easy to find unless things are intentionally hidden.
Praying for all on board and their families. <3
Our condolences to the loved-ones of 61-year-old Chung Ho Kang, reported missing in April, 2018.
1/25/19
A skull found near an East Anchorage trailhead has been identified as that of 61-year-old Chung Ho Kang, reported missing in April, police say.
Police have not determined a cause of death, according to an update Thursday morning. Family members last heard from Kang in late March, according to a police advisory from April. A police spokesman said they reported him missing on April 11 after he failed to show up at a planned meeting.
The remains were found in early January off Campbell Airstrip Road in Far North Bicentennial Park, police said at the time. Someone spotted them after their dog located them in woods near the Bivouac trailheads.
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My thoughts and prayers are with Chung's family and friends..
1/1/19
WASHINGTON, D.C. (WSET) -- President Trump has sign a new bill into law to keep your family members safe.
The president signed the Ashanti Alert Act, which is legislation that creates a new federal alert system for missing or endangered adults between the ages of 18 and 64.
The law is named after Ashanti Bille, the 19-year-old was abducted in Norfolk in 2017.
Her body was discovered in North Carolina 11 days after she was reported missing.
When Ashanti was abducted, she was too old for an Amber Alert and too young for a Silver Alert.
The Ashanti Alert, like the other alert systems, would notify the public about missing or endangered adults through a national communications network to assist law enforcement in the search.
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Pres. Trump signs Ashanti Alert Act into law
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WASHINGTON, D. C. (WSET) -- President Trump has sign a new bill into law to keep your family members safe. The president signed the Ashanti Alert Act, which is legislation that creates a new federal a...3 months ago
#Missing Daniel Smith, 61, Bethel, AK. Last seen in October or early November, 2018.
12/28/18
The Bethel Police Department reported 61-year-old Daniel Smith missing on December 27. He's from Hooper Bay and was visiting Bethel this fall. Alaska State Troopers notifed BPD that Smith was missing on Dec. 21.
Bethel Police Chief Burke Waldron says that Smith's brother and sister, Jonathan and Wilma Smith told BPD that they had not seen him since October or early November. He was last seen in Bethel during September and October.
Waldron says that BPD has checked with the all of the airlines, and has not found any indication that Smith has flown out of Bethel. Waldron said that BPD could not find a permenant address for Smith in Bethel.
Anyone with information about Daniel Smith should please call BPD at 907-543-3781
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BPD Hunts For More Info On Missing Man Last Seen In Bethel In October
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This story will be updated as KYUK gets more information. The Bethel Police Department reported 61-year-old Daniel Smith missing on December 27. He's from3 months ago
#StillMissing Pilot Patrick Coyle, flight nurse Stacie Rae Morse and flight paramedic Margaret Langston.
3/19/19
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Searchers have recovered the cockpit voice recorder and found other parts of an air ambulance that disappeared in Alaska with three people on board in January, the owners of the aircraft said Tuesday.
A landing gear and engine of the King Air 200 also were located in the same waters of Frederick Sound, Guardian Flight said in an initial release. The company later said an underwater search team located additional aircraft parts on Tuesday, including the tail assembly, fragmented fuselage, propeller blades and wing fragments.
Searchers estimate they found as much as 90 percent of the plane scattered over a large debris field in the waters of Frederick Sound, according to the Utah-based company. Guardian Flight said it plans to recover major pieces that could be useful in the investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board.
Clint Johnson, the NTSB’s Alaska chief, said options are being looked at for recovering airplane debris, but added plans have not been finalized.
“This is a work in progress,” he said.
An NTSB investigator was on board the recovery boat when the plane’s black box recorder was recovered Monday evening, and has possession of the black box, also known as a cockpit voice recorder, according to Johnson.
Guardian Flight said it continues its search for the bodies of the three people who disappeared Jan. 29 flying to pick up a patient in the southeast community of Kake.
Pilot Patrick Coyle, flight nurse Stacie Rae Morse and flight paramedic Margaret Langston were Guardian Flight employees based in Juneau.
“The families of our beloved crew members have been notified of these latest developments. We are hopeful that we will be able to recover their loved ones to aid them and the entire Guardian Flight team in grieving this tremendous loss,” Randy Lyman, the company’s operations vice president, wrote in a news release..
The Coast Guard searched hundreds of square miles (kilometers) before suspending the search Jan. 31.
An aircraft wing and other debris were found at the search site about 22 miles (35 kilometers) west of Kake near the last known position of the plane. Guardian Flight officials say they believe it was the missing plane.
The company initially grounded all of its 85 aircraft across the U.S. as a show of respect for the missing. It gradually re-started operations with aircraft based outside of Alaska.
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Searchers recover black box recorder of missing Alaska plane
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Searchers have recovered the cockpit voice recorder and found other parts of an air ambulance that disappeared in Alaska with three people on board in January, the owners of the aircraft said Tuesday5 days ago
#StillMissing Dashawn McCormick, then 3, has been officially missing since April 1, 2013. Anchorage, AK.
3/6/19
ANCHORAGE, AK — Dashawn McCormick has been officially missing since April 1, 2013. He was three years old when he vanished from his hometown of Anchorage, Alaska.
At the time, Dashawn lived with his father, Floyd Leroy Lee, Jr., and his stepmother, Mary Elizabeth Transki. Authorities noticed Dashawn was nowhere to be found when FBI agents arrived to arrest the couple for securities fraud and mail fraud. The quest to find Dashawn has continued unabated from that moment onward.
After getting busted, both Lee and Transki were convicted of defrauding Anchorage-area investors. Lee got sentenced to 37 months in jail. Neither Lee nor Transki, however, have offered any insight or information as to where Dashawn might be.
Jasmine McCormick, Dashawn’s mom, faced troubles of her own when she granted custody of her son to his father in 2012, a decision she has long come to regret.
Explaining how it happened, Jasmine said she was forced to flee Alaska to escape an abusive relationship, stating, “I had to make the choice to stay and die, or lose a child and leave and get the other children out of there. I wanted to take Dashawn with me, but I would’ve been put in prison. [Lee] had full custody. My son couldn’t leave the state.”
Even though 2013 is the officially recognized date of Dashawn’s disappearance, some accounts suggest he may have vanished even earlier. Judy Holmes, Dashawn’s step-grandmother, says the last time she saw the boy was on July 4, 2012.
What matters, though, is the search to find Dashawn today, and to let him know that his family is actively in pursuit of him and loves him very much.
In a letter to her son published by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Jasmine McCormick wrote: “Dashawn, if I could see you today I would wrap my arms around you and sing ‘Happy Birthday’ … Dashawn, I want you to know that I love you very, very much and I will never give up hope until you come home. Your brothers, sister, and I pray every night that you are safe and holding strong. We love you and miss, you Dashawn.”
The age-progressed photo shows what Dashawn may have looked like at age nine. He is currently 11 years old.
TRAITS & CHARACTERISTICS:
Weight at the time of his disappearance: 45 pounds
Height at the time of his disappearance: 3 feet, 6 inches
Sex: Male
Race: Biracial / Caucasian and black
Hair: Blond
Eyes: Brown
Current age: 11
Date of birth: August 17, 2007
Missing since: April 1, 2013
Scars/marks: burn mark on his leg and scar on the center of his forehead
If you know anything about this case or where to find Dashawn, please contact our hotline (833-3-PURSUE) or submit a tip online. www.investigationdiscovery.com/crimefeed/id-shows/on-tv0/in-pursuit-with-john-walsh/in-pursuit-tips
For more on this case, watch the “The Escape Artist” episode of In Pursuit With John Walsh on Wednesday, March 6 at 10/9c on Investigation Discovery! Or catch up on ID GO.
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When Feds Showed Up To Arrest Dashawn McCormick’s Parents In 2013, He Was Gone
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The Alaska boy was three when went he went missing; the push to find the now-11-year-old Dashawn remains the top priority of the family that loves him.5 days ago
#Missing David Miller, 38 and Rex Iyatunguk, 37. left Teller, AK, at around noon Feb. 25 on a snowmobile.
3/6/19
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA (AP) — Alaska State Troopers are ending their participation in a search for two men missing on a snowmobile trip to Nome.
Trooper spokesman Tim DeSpain says searchers have looked "multiple times" for the men along the Blodgett Highway that runs between Teller and Nome with no luck.
The Anchorage Daily News reports 38-year-old David Miller and 37-year-old Rex Iyatunguk left Teller at around noon Feb. 25 on a snowmobile.
The trip to Nome generally takes two or three hours. The men were reported overdue that night.
Severe snowstorms with whiteout conditions hampered the search.
DeSpain says volunteer searchers will continue looking for the men.
Family members and friends of the missing men are using social media to seek food and supplies to support the search.
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Troopers End Their Search for Men Missing on Trip to Nome
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Alaska State Troopers are ending their participation in a search for two men missing on a snowmobile trip to Nome.3 weeks ago
#StillMissing Linda Skeek, 32, presumed dead. Jan. 1, 2016. Anchorage, AK.
2/26/19
Linda Skeek has been gone for more than three years now.
She is presumed dead: The 32-year-old’s family ran an obituary in the newspaper and held a memorial.
But her body has never been found. Now, her husband is on trial in Anchorage for her murder.
Thomas Skeek, 37, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of his wife, whom he’d been married to for more than eight years at the time of her disappearance on Jan. 1, 2016.
The case of the state of Alaska vs. Thomas Skeek represents a rare but not unheard of circumstance in Alaska’s courts: a murder trial in which the victim’s body has not been located.
Only a few such cases have been tried since the 1970s in Alaska.
His trial began Thursday in an Anchorage courtroom. It is expected to last for weeks.
Prosecutors contend that Thomas Skeek killed his wife in the early hours of Jan. 1, 2016, and disposed of her body, then reported her missing to police.
“The family has not even had a grave over which to mourn,” assistant district attorney Saritha Anjilvel told the jury during opening statements Thursday.
Thomas Skeek’s defense attorney told jurors that the state couldn’t even prove Linda Skeek was dead -- much less that her husband killed her.
“What happened to her after she walked off on New Year’s Day 2016 we may never know,” said Emily Cooper, an attorney with the Office of Public Advocacy. “But my client did not murder his wife.”
The night Linda Skeek went missing
The Skeeks were from Southeast Alaska and had been living in Juneau before moving to Anchorage in mid-2015.
Linda Skeek had gotten a good job at NANA Regional Corp., and the family had used some of her earnings to move into an apartment on Morningside Loop in South Anchorage, attorneys said. Linda worked while Thomas Skeek stayed home with the couple’s two elementary school-aged kids. Linda’s other daughter lived with her father in Juneau.
Behind the scenes, things were unraveling: The defense contends that Linda Skeek spent weekends drinking heavily, sometimes staying away from home for days at a time. Both Linda and her husband were having affairs.
“Her outward appearance of perfection was anything but once the weekends came around,” Cooper, the defense attorney, told the jury.
On New Year’s Eve, the family watched the movie “Minions” on a DVD player in their new Lincoln Navigator SUV and then watched fireworks downtown, prosecutors said.
From there, attorneys say surveillance footage captures Thomas Skeek dropping Linda off at various Anchorage bars while he and the kids waited in the car.
They returned to the Morningside Loop apartment after midnight.
Both sides agree that the couple argued when they returned home: The defense says Linda Skeek wanted to go back out to the bars, and her husband wouldn’t let her take the car because she had been drinking.
Linda walked angry and drunk into the snowy Anchorage night, where myriad dangers could have befallen her, Cooper told the jury.
Even after Thomas reported his wife missing, the Anchorage Police Department didn’t investigate the case for several days, Cooper said — crucial time that could have meant that additional surveillance video, physical evidence or suspects slipped away.
Cooper told jurors that the state lacks hard evidence that Linda Skeek is dead.
“This is still a missing person case,” Cooper told the jury.
Prosecutors contend Thomas Skeek killed his wife and then set about disposing of her body and cleaning up the mess. They told the jury that Skeek bought Clorox, ammonia and other cleaning products at Fred Meyer hours later that day.
A neighbor testified that she heard Thomas Skeek yelling that he’d kill his wife early on Jan. 1, before barging in the door.
There were sounds of a struggle and then thudding sounds, the neighbor told the jury.
Prosecutors said they would put out evidence to show that even though no body has been found, Linda Skeek was “gone without a trace.”
No-body homicide cases
There have been only a few no-body homicide cases taken to trial in Alaska in the past 30 years.
The state has retried several of them before getting convictions, or defendants have been found guilty on lesser charges.
In the 1980s, the state of Alaska twice tried a Kodiak oil worker named Jack Ibach and another man for the murder of Ibach’s ex-wife, Laura Henderson. The two were locked in a bitter custody battle over their children when Henderson disappeared. Her clothes and wallet washed up on a Kodiak beach. But her body was never found. The two men were sentenced to long prison terms.
In 2001, an alleged cocaine dealer from Kenai named Rocky Seaman was charged with the murder of his brother’s girlfriend, whose body was never found. A jury didn’t reach a decision on the murder charge but convicted him of conspiracy, sentencing him to more than 70 years in prison.
More recently, in 2003, Billy D. Smith was sentenced to 99 years in prison for the murders of Harold Enzler and Nancy Bellamy in Nikiski. Their bodies were never found. Prosecutors argued that he shot the couple to death, chopped up their bodies with an ax and tossed the remains into the ocean near Homer. It took three trials before he was found guilty, according to news reports from the time.
Lengthy trial
The trial is expected to be a lengthy one. Prosecutors spent Tuesday calling witnesses to establish simply that nobody had heard from Linda Skeek from Jan. 1, 2016, on.
On Tuesday, Thomas Skeek sat quietly at the defense table in a blue dress shirt and a tie. Members of Linda Skeek’s extended family, including her biological mother, foster mother and teenage daughter, watched parts of the trial. Several had flown in from Juneau. Family members declined to talk to a reporter, saying they didn’t want to influence the trial.
Testimony was emotional: Two sisters fought tears as they described how their usual routine of texting and Facebook messaging with Linda came to an abrupt end on New Year’s Eve.
Linda Skeek’s foster sister Nicole Robinson-Wells described the last time she talked with the sister she called her “best friend.”
On New Year’s Eve, they traded messages about Linda’s last Facebook posting, a photo of the children in the new SUV watching a movie on an interior DVD player: “Watching ‘Minions’ before the fireworks. It’s too cold for us to be outside. Spoiled little family,” she’d posted.
They talked again around midnight. But the next day, and the day after, there were no messages.
“Did you ever hear from her again?” asked Anjilvel, the assistant district attorney.
“No,” Robinson-Wells said.
The trial will resume Wednesday.
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2/21/19
SPOKANE, Wash. — A recent report places Washington among the top five states in the country with the most missing persons per capita.
The report from home security company Vivint says that Washington currently has 643 open missing persons cases, meaning there at 8.7 missing people for every 100,000 residents in the state.
Alaska is the No. 1 state with the most missing persons (41.8 people missing per 100,000 residents), followed by Arizona, Oregon, Washington and Vermont, according to Vivint.
California has the most missing persons in total, with 2,133 people missing, according to Vivint.
Idaho has 5.9 missing people for 100,000 residents, according to the report. It does not rank among the top states with the most or least missing people.
Vivint Source gathered data from the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System to compile the data. State populations reported came from the 2017 American Community Survey one-year estimates.
A missing person is defined as “anyone whose whereabouts are unknown whatever the circumstances of disappearance.” This can include a lost person, someone who has voluntarily gone missing or someone who is missing against their will.
According to NamUS, more than 600,000 people go missing each year in the United States, ranging from young children to older individuals.
Of the 15,207 people currently missing in the U.S., approximately 60 percent are male and 40 percent are female, according to Vivint. The average age of a missing person is 34.
As of Jan. 2019, there are 106 children missing who were younger than a year old when they went missing, according to Vivint.
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Washington among top 5 states with most missing persons per capita, report says
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The report says Washington currently has 643 open missing persons cases, meaning there 8.7 missing people for every 100,000 residents in the state.1 month ago
Human foot found West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. September, 2018.
2/14/19
At least 15 human feet have been found along the shores of a Canadian province over the past 12 years, according to a government news release. One was recently discovered in a shoe in West Vancouver, in September.
Now, the Coroners Service of British Columbia is seeking the public's help in determining who the foot belong to. The government office, which investigates deaths in the western Canadian province, said it belongs to a male believed to be younger than 50.
"This is the 15th human foot found on British Columbia shorelines since August 2007," the Coroners Service said this week in a news release.
The agency said the foot was inside a 9.5-size, light grey Nike shoe.
There's no reason for alarm, according to an official.
"One thing that we know is that these feet that are found — they're not linked to any sort of suspicious circumstance," said Coroners Service spokesperson Andy Watson, CBC reported. "I want to clear that up to make sure people are aware this isn't a cause for panic."
The agency released an infographic where — and when — all the feet have been found:
Several other human feet have also reportedly been discovered in the same region in Washington state in recent years.
2/14/19
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Margaret Allyson Langston, 43, Kake, Alaska.
January 29, 2019
Missing on board a Guardian King Air 200, N13LY. Last known coordinates are 57.1.45 N, 134.49.88 W. Also missing are Patrick Coyle and Stacie Morse.
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Sex
Female
Height
5' 4" (64 Inches)
Weight
150 lbs
Race / Ethnicity
White / Caucasian
NamUs Case Created
February 12, 2019
Hair Color
Brown
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Left Eye Color
Blue
Right Eye Color
Blue
www.namus.gov/MissingPersons/Case#/55351
1 month ago
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#Missing Stacie Rae Morse, 30, Kake, Alaska.
January 29, 2019
Missing on board a Guardian King Air 200, N13LY. Last known coordinates are 57.1.45 N, 134.49.88 W. Also missing are Margaret Langston and Patrick Coyle.
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Sex
Female
Height
5' 4" (64 Inches)
Weight
135 lbs
Race / Ethnicity
White / Caucasian
NamUs Case Created
February 12, 2019
Hair Color
Blond/Strawberry
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Left Eye Color
Blue
Right Eye Color
Blue
www.namus.gov/MissingPersons/Case#/55352
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I thought they passed away in plane
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#Missing Patrick Joseph Coyle, 63, Kake, Alaska. January 29, 2019
Missing on board a Guardian King Air 200, N13LY. Last known coordinates are 57.1.45 N, 134.49.88 W. Also missing are Margaret Langston and Stacie Morse.
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Sex
Male
Height
5' 10" (70 Inches)
Weight
205 lbs
Race / Ethnicity
White / Caucasian
NamUs Case Created
February 12, 2019
Hair Color
Blond/Strawberry
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Left Eye Color
Blue
Right Eye Color
Blue
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1 month ago
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#Missing Ingvar Daniel Johansen, III, 28, Koliganek, Alaska. January 18, 2019
Missing after riding a snowmachine through the ice on a river about 3-4 miles south of Koliganek.
No photo provided.
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Sex
Male
Height
5' 10" (70 Inches)
Weight
255 lbs
Race / Ethnicity
American Indian / Alaska Native
NamUs Case Created
January 25, 2019
Hair Color
Black
Left Eye Color
Brown
Right Eye Color
Brown
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The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)
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By bringing people, information, forensic science and technology together, NamUs helps resolve cases.1 month ago
#StillMissing pilot Patrick Coyle, 63, flight nurse Stacie Rae Morse, 30, and flight paramedic Margaret Langston Allen, 43.
2/13/19
Two weeks after the loss of a Guardian Flight plane near Kake which left its crew of three missing and presumed dead, a signal from the wrecked aircraft has been discovered in nearby waters.
Clint Johnson, the National Transportation Safety Board’s Alaska chief, said a search vessel commissioned by aircraft operator Guardian Flight made the discovery Tuesday in waters off Kake. The U.S. Coast Guard suspended its search for the plane and its Juneau-based flight crew – pilot Patrick Coyle, 63, flight nurse Stacie Rae Morse, 30, and flight paramedic Margaret Langston Allen, 43 – after finding debris believed to be from the Beechcraft King Air 200.
Morse was pregnant when the plane went missing; the unborn baby was remembered as a fourth victim.
“They arrived on scene, the accident scene, first thing this morning,” Johnson said. “They put the acoustical locator equipment in the water and were able to detect a ping coming from the cockpit’s acoustical recorder.”
The duration of a plane’s underwater pinger varies by model, and Johnson said the one on the crashed plane was rated for 30 days. Tuesday’s discovery comes 14 days after the plane left Anchorage and was expected in Kake on the night of Jan. 29 – but never arrived.
“We wanted to get there before the battery and the pinger runs out,” Johnson said. “It appears we have done that.”
Guardian Flight has said depths in the six-square-mile search area, estimated with help from the NTSB, range from 300 to 1,000 feet. The company issued the following statement Tuesday afternoon:
We are confirming that the search efforts for Guardian Flight's missing crew and aircraft has taken a step forward. The underwater beacon ping from the cockpit voice recorder “black box” has been detected. There will now be efforts to narrow down its location through triangulation and to determine depth. We are hopeful that the Remotely Operated Underwater Vehicle (ROV) will assist in visually spotting the aircraft and be followed by successful recovery efforts. Again, our thoughts, prayers and deepest heartfelt feelings are extended to the families, friends and colleagues of our fellow crew members.
Tuesday’s development is the first step in preparing a subsequent voyage to examine and possibly recover the sunken plane. Johnson said the search vessel’s crew, with help from NTSB investigator Brice Banning, was attempting to determine the exact location and water depth.
“This is not the end of this, by any means; this is a very encouraging data point,” Johnson said. “Our intent is to locate the wreckage, put eyes on it, probably a [remotely operated vehicle].”
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Underwater signal found from missing Guardian Flight plane
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A search vessel commissioned by aircraft operator Guardian Flight made the discovery Tuesday in waters off Kake.1 month ago
Aircraft flying from Anchorage to Kake, Alaska reported missing. Three people on board. 1/29/19.
#Missing
The pilot is 63-year-old Patrick Coyle, the flight nurse is 30-year-old Stacie Rae Morse, and the flight paramedic is 43-year-old Margaret Langston Allen
1/30/19
KODIAK, ALASKA (AP) — The Latest on missing medical flight in Alaska (all times local):
6:35 p.m.
Guardian Flight, which operated the medical airplane that went missing in Alaska, has released the names of those onboard.
The pilot is 63-year-old Patrick Coyle, the flight nurse is 30-year-old Stacie Rae Morse, and the flight paramedic is 43-year-old Margaret Langston Allen. The company statement says all are based in Juneau.
Guardian Flight Randy Lyman says the company is focusing on the crewmembers' families during this difficult time.
The Coast Guard says the twin-engine King Air 200 took off from Anchorage on Tuesday and was expected to land in Kake but never arrived. A Guard spokeswoman says airplane debris was found Wednesday but the search continues because searchers could not immediately confirm the debris found Wednesday is that of the missing plane.
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4:45 p.m.
The Coast Guard in Alaska says airplane debris has been found during a search for a medical airplane that went missing with three people aboard.
Chief Petty Officer Charly Hengen says searchers could not immediately confirm the debris found Wednesday is of the missing King Air 200 plane operated by Guardian Flight. The debris was found about 22 miles west of the southeast Alaska village of Kake.
The Coast Guard says the twin-engine plane took off from Anchorage on Tuesday and was expected to land in Kake at 6:19 p.m. but never arrived.
Hengen says the search continues for the missing plane, despite the discovery of debris.
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11:50 a.m.
Federal accident investigators are reviewing radar flight information about a medical airplane that went missing with three people aboard who were heading to pick up a patient in an Alaska village.
Clint Johnson, chief of the National Transportation Safety Board in Alaska, says no clues have been immediately found in the electronic search Wednesday of archived data showing the flight pattern of the missing King Air 200 plane operated by operated by Guardian Flight.
The Coast Guard says the twin-engine plane took off from Anchorage on Tuesday and was expected to land in the southeastern community of Kake at 6:19 p.m. but never arrived.
Kake city administrator Rudy Bean says residents in a dozen boats searched Tuesday night for the plane, and some went back out to sea Wednesday.
Chief Petty Officer Charly Hengen says the search by boats and aircraft is focusing on an area 20 miles (32 kilometers) west of Kake.
The Coast Guard says Alaska state ferries also have joined in the search.
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9:50 a.m.
An official with a medical flight firm says the company's Alaska aircraft have been grounded while the Coast Guard searches for an overdue air ambulance with three people on board.
Guardian Flight spokesman Jim Gregory says the grounding of the aircraft gives company employees a chance to reflect on the three crew members and pray for them. A pilot, a nurse and a paramedic are aboard.
Gregory says the company initially grounded all aircraft across the U.S. but has gradually re-started operations with aircraft based outside of Alaska.
The Coast Guard says the King Air 200 plane operated by Guardian Flight took off from Anchorage on Tuesday and was expected to land in the tiny southeastern village of Kake at 6:19 p.m. but never arrived.
Chief Petty Officer Charly Hengen says the search by boats and aircraft is focusing on an area 20 miles (32 kilometers) west of Kake.
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2:45 a.m.
The Coast Guard in Alaska is searching for an overdue medical flight with three people aboard.
The Coast Guard says the King Air 200, operated by Guardian Flight, had taken off from Anchorage on Tuesday and was expected to land in Kake at 6:19 p.m., but never arrived.
A pilot, a nurse and a paramedic were aboard.
A Coast Guard vessel was sent to search near the aircraft's last known position.
Light rain was reported in the area.
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1/30/19
ANCHORAGE (KTUU) - 9 a.m. Update:
The search continues Wednesday morning for an ambulance aircraft with Guardian Flight which went missing Tuesday evening after failing to reach its scheduled destination in Kake.
Chief Charly Hengen with the U.S. Coast Guard public affairs office told KTUU early Wednesday that more crews are coming in to assist in the search in addition to the search personnel mobilized yesterday who would again be participating in the efforts.
"We're still conducting the search this morning. So far there are no reports of the aircraft being found from last night or into this morning," Hengen said.
The additional search units come from the Kake search and rescue team, Alaska State Troopers, Petersburg search and rescue, Alaska Air National Guard, and multiple U.S. Coast Guard cutters.
“With the assistance of our state and local partners and good Samaritan vessels, we will continue to search for the missing aircraft and individuals,” said Capt. Stephen White, Sector Juneau commander. “We have several Coast Guard assets diligently searching along with the invaluable assistance of the other rescue and volunteers, and we greatly appreciate their help.”
Guardian Flight initiated a stand down of the company's Alaska fleet until updates on the search are available, according to a post made on the company's Facebook page.
2:51AM CT January 30th 2019 Update
Original Story:
An aircraft with Guardian Flight air ambulance service is missing and a search is now underway, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.
The flight was en route from Anchorage to Kake Tuesday evening, but did not arrive as scheduled.
The Coast Guard says its watchstanders in Juneau received notification from Sitka Flight Services that a Guardian Flight King Air 200 medical life flight was expected to land in Kake at 6:19 p.m., but the aircraft never landed.
Coast Guard officials say there are three people on board, and search crews are looking in an area about 20 miles west of Kake.
The Coast Guard Cutter Anacapa is conducting the search near the last known position of the aircraft. Good Samaritan vessels are also searching the area, along with a Coast Guard helicopter based in Sitka.
“Coast Guard crews are diligently searching for the missing aircraft and individuals,” said Lt j.g. Colin McClelland, Coast Guard Sector Juneau command duty officer. “We appreciate the assistance of the good Samaritan vessels and we hope we locate the aircraft and people soon.” ��
In a written statement Tuesday night, Randy Lyman, Senior Vice President of Operations for the company wrote "The Guardian Flight family is devastated to report that a company aircraft flying from Anchorage to Kake, Alaska has been reported missing".
The company said three Guardian Flight employees, a pilot, nurse, and paramedic, were aboard the twin-engine plane.
"Our thoughts and prayers go out to our fellow employees and their families during this very trying time" wrote Lyman, who added that Guardian Flight has initiated a stand down of the company's entire fleet until further information is available.
Guardian Flight also said it will be cooperating fully with the National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration during the investigation.
The Coast Guard said weather in the area was reported as light rain with overcast skies, 10 miles visibility, 7 mph winds and an air temperature of 36 degrees.
This is a developing story. Check KTUU.com and Channel 2 News for updates.
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UPDATE: Search continues day after Alaska ambulance aircraft goes missing
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An aircraft with Guardian Flight air ambulance service is missing, and a search is now underway, according to the Coast Guard.2 months ago
My prayers go out.. but in 2019 and technology and knowledge of Alaska's weather makes me wonder about standard GPS tracking. Things tend to be easy to find unless things are intentionally hidden.
Praying for all on board and their families. <3
Our condolences to the loved-ones of 61-year-old Chung Ho Kang, reported missing in April, 2018.
1/25/19
A skull found near an East Anchorage trailhead has been identified as that of 61-year-old Chung Ho Kang, reported missing in April, police say.
Police have not determined a cause of death, according to an update Thursday morning. Family members last heard from Kang in late March, according to a police advisory from April. A police spokesman said they reported him missing on April 11 after he failed to show up at a planned meeting.
The remains were found in early January off Campbell Airstrip Road in Far North Bicentennial Park, police said at the time. Someone spotted them after their dog located them in woods near the Bivouac trailheads.
www.adn.com/alaska-news/anchorage/2019/01/24/remains-found-at-east-anchorage-trailhead-linked-to-...
2 months ago
My thoughts and prayers are with Chung's family and friends..
1/1/19
WASHINGTON, D.C. (WSET) -- President Trump has sign a new bill into law to keep your family members safe.
The president signed the Ashanti Alert Act, which is legislation that creates a new federal alert system for missing or endangered adults between the ages of 18 and 64.
The law is named after Ashanti Bille, the 19-year-old was abducted in Norfolk in 2017.
Her body was discovered in North Carolina 11 days after she was reported missing.
When Ashanti was abducted, she was too old for an Amber Alert and too young for a Silver Alert.
The Ashanti Alert, like the other alert systems, would notify the public about missing or endangered adults through a national communications network to assist law enforcement in the search.
wset.com/news/local/trump-signs-ashanti-alert-act-into-law-creating-adult-version-of-amber-alert
Pres. Trump signs Ashanti Alert Act into law
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WASHINGTON, D. C. (WSET) -- President Trump has sign a new bill into law to keep your family members safe. The president signed the Ashanti Alert Act, which is legislation that creates a new federal a...3 months ago
#Missing Daniel Smith, 61, Bethel, AK. Last seen in October or early November, 2018.
12/28/18
The Bethel Police Department reported 61-year-old Daniel Smith missing on December 27. He's from Hooper Bay and was visiting Bethel this fall. Alaska State Troopers notifed BPD that Smith was missing on Dec. 21.
Bethel Police Chief Burke Waldron says that Smith's brother and sister, Jonathan and Wilma Smith told BPD that they had not seen him since October or early November. He was last seen in Bethel during September and October.
Waldron says that BPD has checked with the all of the airlines, and has not found any indication that Smith has flown out of Bethel. Waldron said that BPD could not find a permenant address for Smith in Bethel.
Anyone with information about Daniel Smith should please call BPD at 907-543-3781
www.kyuk.org/post/bpd-hunts-more-info-missing-man-last-seen-bethel-october
BPD Hunts For More Info On Missing Man Last Seen In Bethel In October
kyuk.org
This story will be updated as KYUK gets more information. The Bethel Police Department reported 61-year-old Daniel Smith missing on December 27. He's from3 months ago
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