{"id":31953,"date":"2019-01-30T21:59:02","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T21:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2019\/01\/30\/search-for-missing-medical-plane-continues-in-alaska\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T19:35:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T19:35:48","slug":"search-for-missing-medical-plane-continues-in-alaska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/your-navy\/2019\/01\/30\/search-for-missing-medical-plane-continues-in-alaska\/","title":{"rendered":"Search for missing medical plane continues in Alaska"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Alaska Army National Guard has joined a widening dragnet spearheaded by the Coast Guard to find a medical plane that disappeared Tuesday night but officials confirmed reports of aircraft debris in the Chatham Strait.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coast Guard Sector Juneau watchstanders received a warning from the Sitka Flight Service Station<\/a> that a twin-engine Guardian King Air 200 medical flight was due to land at the village of Kake \u2014 about 635 miles southeast of Anchorage on the northwest shore of Kupreanof Island<\/a> \u2014 at 6:19 p.m. Tuesday but never made it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Wednesday night, Coast Guard officials told Navy Times that there appears to be debris from an airplane floating in the water about 22 miles west of Kake, near the south tip of Admiralty Island in the Chatham Strait<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But officials insist that they can\u2019t confirm that the debris is from the overdue aircraft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have received reports of debris in the water and are concentrating search efforts near that area,\u201d said Capt. Stephen White, Coast Guard Sector Juneau\u2019s commander in a statement emailed to Navy Times. \u201cThrough our coordinated efforts with all involved we continue to actively search. We are thankful for the assistance rendered.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guardian Flight has issued a statement<\/a> identifying them as pilot Patrick Coyle, 63, flight nurse Stacie Rae Morse, 30, and flight paramedic Margaret Langston Allen, 43, all based in Juneau.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Company spokesman Jim Gregory confirmed to Navy Times that they were flying to Kake \u201cin order to pick up a patient for transport.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The electronic locating transmitter is not broadcasting for the lost aircraft, according to Coast Guard officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Associated Press reported Wednesday evening that Clint Johnson, chief of the National Transportation Safety Board in Alaska, says no clues have been immediately found in the electronic search of archived data showing the flight pattern of the missing plane.<\/p>\n\n\n\t