After 2 crashes in a week, Alaska air carrier grounds planes
An Alaska floatplane company has suspended its operations, after its planes were involved in two fatal crashes in one week.
The pilot and a passenger of a Taquan Air plane died Monday afternoon when the plane crashed in Metlakatla Harbor, south of Ketchikan. That incident followed a mid-air collision on May 13 between a Taquan Air plane and one operated by Mountain Air Service that was carrying passengers from a cruise ship. Six people – one of them from the Taquan plane - perished in that crash, and ten were rescued.