Although I love reading at ETS, always carry my DR PSK, this is a rare attempt to post. Tried to search to be certain it's not a duplicate, and hope it's in the right place.

In any event, I read the article at the link below, thinking what a lucky and skillful pilot they had. Thoughts about how they could have been a bit better prepared also kept crossing my mind. If you were to take an air taxi in Alaska, how would you prepare? What would you take along to tip the odds of survival in your favor?

Not a likely trip for me, but that doesn't mean I haven't spent a good amount of time looking over DR's exquisite equipment layouts for pilots. Never can tell when a lotto win might lead to a trip to Alaska... good to have some ideas, you know?

BTW, thanks to all for the information and insight I've gained here over the last several years.


http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/1020166.html

Anchorage Daily News
All passengers safe after air taxi's emergency landing
By KYLE HOPKINS
Published: November 19th, 2009 02:13 PM

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. . . The Cessna lifted off for the roughly 85-mile trip. Everything seemed fine until Amos, the pilot, started checking something on one of the instruments, . . .


. . . The pilot would later tell the NTSB the plane began losing oil pressure at 4,500 feet and he tried to change course for Tuntutuliak, Johnson said. . . .

. . . flying from Bethel to their hometown of Kipnuk, four miles from the Bering Sea coast. The plane made it about halfway, going down roughly 15 miles from Tuntutuliak, where a rescue team scrambled to haul the passengers and pilot to safety on snowmachines. . . .


. . . Now the airline, Bethel-based Yute Air, and the National Transportation Safety Board are looking to find out what went wrong. . . .
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Hope I did this right...

BTW - X-Ray Dave, hope all is good with you, sir.

...Cjoi