Twin Cessna Fatal Alaska 8/20/2026

Security is usually pretty solid, not like many of the "bush league" guys out here. I'm shocked and saddened. I have an aquantence who is a pilot there. I hope he is OK.
 
Very sad.
Military airport, supports a long range radar facility. Very challenging strip; on a slope, one way in, one way out. Weather is often pretty bad. One report I saw was 1/4 mile vis around the time of accident.

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edo2000 said:
Very sad.
Military airport, supports a long range radar facility. Very challenging strip; on a slope, one way in, one way out. Weather is often pretty bad. One report I saw was 1/4 mile vis around the time of accident.

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300' of slope on that runway! "SUCCESSFUL GO AROUND IMPROBABLE." is quite ominous.
 
Kenny Phillips said:
300' of slope on that runway! "SUCCESSFUL GO AROUND IMPROBABLE." is quite ominous.
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edo2000 said:
Very sad.
Military airport, supports a long range radar facility. Very challenging strip; on a slope, one way in, one way out. Weather is often pretty bad. One report I saw was 1/4 mile vis around the time of accident.

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Report on national news (take that for what its worth) they tried the approach twice.
 
Aw man, if that's true...the multiple approaches. I've flown into ALL the LRRS stations, in a DC-6. They are nuts. Indian Mountain has a slope of 12%. They are one way in, one way out. I remember my first time into Sparrevohn; in was fun enough. But then, while preparing for departure, I asked my Captain what V1 was, he said "when we add power!!!" True story.
 
Sparrevohn. It's insane. "Go around unlikely...." is very truthful. It's on the wall of an old volanic Caldera. the wind in there is like that in a toilet bowl. There was no RNAV back then, just the NDB. Here's how the approach looked like back in the day....

"You're a better man than I, Gunga Din!"
 

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I think Sparrevohn is 9%. Indian Mountaian is 12%. They are all on the sides of mountains. None are very fun to land or take off at. Try it in a 4 engine radial museum piece, HA! There is a point where you are just committed. As my Captain at that time said, "we end up on the runway, one way or the other," truer words have never been spoken.
 
bbchien said:
There was no RNAV back then, just the NDB. Here's how the approach looked like back in the day....
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Wow. Haven't seen an NDB approach plate in years. I'd imagine back then that RMI's fed by ADF and VOR receivers were popular. Especially with Alaska operators and the military.

By the time I got around to shooting real world NDB approaches (didn't fly many - the number of them remaining CONUS was dwindling), I was able to cheat by backing them up with a decent Apollo Loran.
 
ionel said:
Report on national news (take that for what its worth) they tried the approach twice.
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Yeah, it looks as though you gotta go missed real early, otherwise you are committed. Or obliterated.
 
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