Tourist plane crashes in Alaska

Earlier this week, a plane carrying four sightseeing tourists crashed in the mountain range of the Misty Fiords National Park in Alaska. The tourists were taking the flight as a side trip from a cruise.

The ship left Ketchikan early Tuesday afternoon for a cruise over the fiords but was never to return. A distress signal had been sent before the accident, and a search party was able to find the wreckage of the plane. All aboard were killed. The pilot was local man Joseph Campbell, and the cruise passengers were Paul and Marianne McManus of Leicester, Massachusetts and William and Jeanne Eddy of Jacksonville, Florida. The two women were sisters.

The crash happened approximately 35 miles north of Ketchikan, where the plane crashed into a cliff face at an elevation of 2,400 feet. The couples had been travelling aboard a cruise ship that had left from Seattle two days earlier as part of a weeklong journey.

Since the accident, the cruise company notified the families and has stopped business with Taquan Air Tours. The families were “shocked and numb at the news of this devastating tragedy.”

www.taquanair.com