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Beer Aboard a Flight to a Dry Alaska Town Costs a Pilot His $95,000 Plane
In 2012, a state trooper in Fairbanks, Alaska, said that Kenneth J. Jouppi knowingly tried to fly into a dry community with a ...
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6 beers, 1 plane: Alaska Supreme Court upholds aircraft forfeiture in bootlegging case
Unless he appeals, Fairbanks pilot Kenneth Jouppi must give up his Cessna 206 for ignoring beer loaded onto a 2012 flight ...
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Alaska Supreme Court finds aircraft forfeiture legal in pilot bootlegging case
An Alaskan pilot faces forfeiture of his Cessna 206 for allowing passengers to load beer onto a flight routed it a dry ...
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner3d
Alaska’s seizure of a bootlegger’s plane was legal, Supreme Court says
The ruling involves a 13-year-old dispute that followed the conviction of Kenneth Jouppi for attempting to transport beer ...
Pilot Rescued with Daughters After Spending Night on Crashed Wing Was Not Authorized to Have Passengers: Officials
The pilot, who, along with his two daughters, was rescued after their small plane crashed on a frozen lake in Alaska, was not allowed to have passengers onboard and is facing disciplinary action from ...
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Probe continues in misuse of student license for pilot whose plane was submerged in icy Alaska lake
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — 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 ...
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Probe continues in misuse of student license for pilot whose plane was submerged in icy Alaska lake
The plane, a Piper PA-12 Super Cruiser registered ... Morris and two young family members, described by Alaska State Troopers as of elementary- and middle school-age, flew from the Soldotna ...