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...Johnson said. The report suggests weather - including turbulence, low clouds and fog - played a role in the crash. Don Bowers, a 52-year-old pilot for Hudson Air Service, had left Talkeetna in late afternoon on June 19 in a ski-equipped...
...only planes to get off Mount McKinley that day, and just an hour or so later another plane piloted by Iditarod musher Don Bowers became disoriented in the weather and crashed, killing Bowers and his three park ranger passengers. ``It was just...
...Service spokeswoman Jane Tranel. The bodies were flown to Anchorage. The crash Monday killed Hudson Air chief pilot Don Bowers, 52; National Park Service Ranger Cale Schaffer, 25; and volunteer rangers Brian Reagan, 27, and Adam Kolff, 27...
...only planes to get off Mount McKinley that day, and just an hour or so later another plane piloted by Iditarod musher Don Bowers became disoriented in the weather and crashed, killing Bowers and his three park ranger passengers. ``It was just...
...Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Saturday. The mushers are (by bib number, No. 1 is set aside for honorary mushers Don Bowers and Dr. R.W. "Van" VanPelt, DVM): 2. Jeff King -- Denali Park 3. Ramy Brooks -- Healy 4. Martin Buser...
...Anderson, Fairbanks; 21. Robert Bundtzen, Anchorage; 22. Aaron Burmeister, Nome; 23. Raymie Redington, Knik; 24. Don Bowers, Montana Creek; 25. Jim Gallea, Seeley Lake, Mont.; 26. Matt Hayashida, Big Lake; 27. Sonny King, Spartanburg...
...whole community,'' said National Park Service spokeswoman Jane Tranel. The crash Monday killed Hudson Air chief pilot Don Bowers, 52; National Park Service Ranger Cale Schaffer, 25; and volunteer rangers Brian Reagan, 27, and Adam Kolff, 27...
...only pilot considered capable of braving Alaska's unpredictable weather was on a trip in the Lower 48, according to Don Bowers, author of "Back of the Pack: An Iditarod Musher's Alaska Pilgrimage to Nome." The only option was to ferry the...
...Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Saturday. The mushers are (by bib number, No. 1 is set aside for honorary mushers Don Bowers and Dr. R.W. "Van" VanPelt, DVM): 2. Jeff King -- Denali Park 3. Ramy Brooks -- Healy 4. Martin Buser...
...Anderson, Fairbanks; 21. Robert Bundtzen, Anchorage; 22. Aaron Burmeister, Nome; 23. Raymie Redington, Knik; 24. Don Bowers, Montana Creek; 25. Jim Gallea, Seeley Lake, Mont.; 26. Matt Hayashida, Big Lake; 27. Sonny King, Spartanburg...