A pilot and two girls survived on the wing of a plane for about 12 hours after it crashed and was partially submerged in an icy Alaska lake, then were rescued after being spotted by a good Samaritan.

Good Samaritans helped save stranded plane crash victims on Monday after their aircraft went missing over a mountain range in Alaska. A Piper PA-12 Super Cruiser was reported overdue on Sunday night ...

Godes headed to Lake Tustumena, near the base of a glacier, and spotted what he believed were wreckage. The Piper PA-12 Super Cruiser plane was reported missing in the Lake Tustumena and Kenai ...

John B. Morris Jr. of Kenai was rescued alongside two school-aged family members off the top of a plane that was mostly submerged near Tustumena Lake. But federal aviation records show he holds a ...

The plane was reported missing Sunday near Tustumena Lake on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula, about 80 miles (129 kilometers) southwest of Anchorage. One of about a dozen volunteer pilots who headed ...

This photo provided by the Alaska National Guard shows an airplane partially submerged into the ice of Tustumena Lake at the toe of a glacier on March 24, 2025, near Soldotna, Alaska ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A federal investigation into misuse of a student pilot’s license continues for an Alaska man who waited hours for rescue with two young family members on the wing of plane ...

Godes headed toward Tustumena Lake near the toe of a glacier and spotted what he thought was wreckage. “It kind of broke my heart to see that, but as I got closer down and lower, I could see ...

On Monday morning, he headed toward Tustumena Lake near the toe of a glacier and spotted what he thought was wreckage. “”It kind of broke my heart to see that, but as I got closer down and ...

A pilot rescued with his two young daughters after they survived a night on the wing of an airplane partially submerged in an Alaska lake is a student pilot who was not authorized to fly with ...