Coast Guard Rescues Pilot After Plane Crashes Near Ketchikan, Alaska

ALASKA, UNITED STATES

08.15.2016

Video by Petty Officer 1st Class Kelly Parker 

U.S. Coast Guard District 17

A Coast Guard Air Station Sitka Jayhawk rescue helicopter crew rescues a pilot after his float plane crashed shortly after take off approximately 26 miles west of Ketchikan, Alaska, Aug. 15, 2016.

The Sitka helicopter crew located the plane wreckage on the shoreline of a lake on Prince of Wales Island.

U.S. Coast Guard video.

• Date Taken: 08.15.2016
• Date Posted: 08.16.2016 15:29
• Category: B-Roll
• Video ID: 479463
• VIRIN: 160815-G-ZZ999-501
• Filename: DOD_103577343
• Length: 00:02:00
• Location: ALASKA, US