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With debris spotted in the water, Coast Guard officials suspend search for missing plane
It's a tragic end to a search took 63 hours and sprawled across 240 square nautical miles in the waters of the Alexander Archipelago.
By Carl Prine
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Coast Guard searching for missing medical plane
Coast Guard Sector Juneau watchstanders received a warning from Sitka Flight Services that a twin-engine Guardian King Air 200 medical flight was due to land at the village of Kake — about 635 miles southeast of Anchorage on the northwest shore of Kupreanof Island — at 6:19 p.m. Tuesday but never made it.
By Carl Prine
Coast Guard suspends search for man who fell off pier
Alaska State Troopers, Kake residents, Village Public Safety Officers and even a remotely-controlled underwater drone had joined in the hunt while a Coast Guard Air Station Sitka MH-60 Jayhawk rescue helicopter scanned the shoreline and surrounding waters.
By Carl Prine