A plane on its way from Skagway to Juneau made an emergency water landing Monday morning. Everyone on board the aircraft swam safely to shore.
Haines resident Luck Dunbar was one of them.
“Well there you are, you’re sitting there thinking ‘This is it. This is it. Here we go,’” Luck Dunbar recounted.
Dunbar boarded the Alaska Seaplanes flight around 5:30 a.m. Monday. The plane flew from Haines to Skagway to pick up three more passengers. Then, it headed for Juneau.
Dunbar is a commercial fisherman who was on his way to Sitka to get his boat. Once on board the flight, he took a nap. He woke up to what he describes as the engine making an unusual noise.
Soon after, he said the plane started to descend early. He asked the pilot what was going on.