The National Transportation Safety Board has released its preliminary report on a medevac airplane that crashed into the waters of Unalaska Bay last month.
While the early findings establish some of the facts surrounding the Jan. 16 crash, the chief of the NTSB’s Alaska Regional Office said it’s too soon to pinpoint the cause.
“We’re still very much in the formative stages of the investigation,” said Clint Johnson. “However, (the report) does outline the circumstances and the weather conditions and the sequence of events that led up to the accident.”
The LifeMed King Air Beechcraft plane went down about 100 feet northwest of the airport runway while trying to take off around 8 a.m. All three people onboard — a pilot, a paramedic and a nurse — evacuated to a life raft and were rescued with no serious injuries.