Troopers responding from Nome recovered both men’s bodies from the site of the crash Friday, according to their report. Troopers then received additional information saying the plane’s two occupants - identified as Tweto, 68, and 45-year-old passenger Shane Reynolds from Orofino, Idaho - were dead, the agency said.Ī third person in their hunting party who’d stayed on the ground witnessed the plane crash, troopers spokesman Tim DeSpain said Saturday. The aircraft “was witnessed taking off but not climbing and then crashing,” troopers said in their report posted late Friday night. Friday, followed by a report that a Cessna 180 had crashed 35 miles northeast of Shaktoolik, troopers said in an online update. Alaskan news at your fingertips, with every article and picture intact, just as you would read in the printed newspaper edition of the Anchorage Daily News.
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Jim Tweto - a Unalakleet bush pilot and rural aviation figure known by many for his starring role on the Discovery Channel series “Flying Wild Alaska” - died Friday in a Western Alaska plane crash that also killed an outdoor guide from Idaho, authorities said.Īlaska State Troopers received notice of an SOS activation around 11:48 a.m.
Tweto died Friday, June 16, 2023, at age 68 in a plane crash northeast of Shaktoolik that also killed 45-year-old passenger Shane Reynolds of Idaho, according to Alaska State Troopers. By Anchorage Daily News editorial board Updated: FebruPublished: FebruHomes in a subdivision in Southwest Anchorage photographed on Thursday, Aug. Longtime Unalakleet pilot Jim Tweto, seen in a scene from an episode of "Flying Wild Alaska" posted to YouTube in 2011. (Loren Holmes / ADN) A veteran Iditarod musher was badly injured Wednesday while he was helping clean up damage left behind by a historic storm that.
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