Alaska's Taquan Air suspends operations after 2 deadly floatplane crashes in 1 week I DECENT NEWS I
An Alaska air carrier has voluntarily suspended operations after two deadly crashes in a week, federal officials said Tuesday.
All Taquan Air commuter and sightseeing flights have been cancelled indefinitely, the Federal Aviation Administration said, after two of the regional airline's floatplanes crashed in the southeastern part of the state near Ketchikan.
Neets Bay Bear Watch Via Floatplane
This once-in-a-lifetime wildlife expedition with wild black bears of Southeast Alaska is certain to charm everyone. Take off in a floatplane, with all the amenities to make your trip a memorable experience, including a digital CD audio system and individual passenger headsets, to Neets Bay, one of the finest bear viewing locations in Alaska. The flight to Neets Bay is over the largest National Forest in the United States. Neets Bay is also home to one of Southeast Alaska's salmon. Upon arrival join a 1/4 mile guided walk along a stunning, well-maintained wilderness road to the viewing area, where black bears fish for their next meal. A naturalist guide will describe the habits of the bear and the lifecycle of their favorite meal - the salmon. The secure, covered viewing area allows for up-close observation in their natural habitat among the wilderness beauty of the Tongass National Forest. Other wildlife possibilities include eagles, Sitka black-tailed deer, mink, marten and seals. Note: Flight time is approximately 45 minutes. Wear comfortable hiking footwear and dress warmly. Rain gear is recommended. There is a 1/4-mile walk over uneven and sometimes difficult terrain, to/from Neets Bay, with a few steps and narrow passageways. This tour is not recommended for guests with physical limitations. Bear watching tours operate during prime bear viewing months, usually late July through mid-September. Wildlife sightings are frequent, however they cannot be guaranteed.
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5 dead after Alaska floatplanes collide in mid-air near Ketchikan
The US Coast Guard said five people died in a mid-air floatplane crash over southeast Alaska. Four of those killed where on an air tour excursion from a Royal Princess cruise that left Vancouver Saturday, a public relations specialist with the cruise line said. The fifth was a pilot.
Southeast Alaska Tour
Flight Simulator 2004 tour through southeast region of AK,USA
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Visiting Misty Fiords National Monument, National monument in Alaska, United States
Misty Fiords National Monument (or Misty Fjords National Monument) is a national monument and wilderness area administered by the U.S. Forest Service as part of the Tongass National Forest. Misty Fiords is about 40 miles (64 km) east of Ketchikan, Alaska, along the Inside Passage coast in extreme southeastern Alaska, comprising 2,294,343 acres (928,488 ha) of Tongass National Forest in Alaska's Panhandle. For more info, visit this link:
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My Trip to WaterFall, AK 2012
Video footage of my big adventure to WaterFall, Alaska June/July 2012.
Waterfall, AK is located on the west side of Prince of Wales Island, 65 airmiles west of Ketchikan in southeast region of the state.
These are shared scenes of camp and the wilderness and various activities.. This is part 1.
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Alaska: Misty Fjords National Park, Ketchikan. June 2014. Linda Collison. HD
Flightseeing trip over Misty Fjords National Park from Ketchikan stop on Celebrity Millennium Cruise up the Inside Passage of SE Alaska. June 2014
Alaska's Water Highways (1978)
Excerpt from Alaska Review 16. In this segment, Alaska Review reports on the status of the state-owned Alaska Marine Highway System, its vessels, passengers and employees. Interviewees include: Bill Hudson, director of the Alaska Marine Highway System; John Sund of Ketchikan; Captain Gary Cramer of the M/V Taku; Captain Herb Story of the M/V Columbia; Ken Beselin, chief engineer of the M/V Columbia; Greg O'Clary of the Inland Boatmen's Union (IBU); Pat Tarte of the Port of Bellingham; Jube Howe of the Port of Seattle; Mary Fabry of Ketchikan, travel agent; Erv Hagerup, chief mate of the M/V Taku; and Len Laurence (misspelled in title screen) of Ketchikan, travel agent. Report contains views of coastal Alaska communities, marine highway vessels, dock workers, passengers, and scenes aboard ferries. (Color/Sound/2-inch quad videotape).
Airing from 1976 to 1987, Alaska Review was the first statewide public affairs television program in Alaska. The show was designed to explore public policy issues confronting Alaska, and to assist citizens in making decisions about the future of their land. Produced by Independent Public Television, Inc., (IPTV), the series eventually consisted of 16 one-hour shows, 46 half-hour shows, and one three-hour special broadcast. Funded through the Alaska Humanities Forum and State of Alaska, the series won multiple awards for public service and educational programming. IPTV dissolved in 1988. Videotapes for all finished productions and raw footage were later moved to the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF), where they became housed with the Alaska Film Archives, a unit of the Alaska and Polar Regions Collections & Archives department in the Rasmuson Library at UAF, shortly after the unit was founded in 1993. The Alaska Film Archives is currently seeking funding to preserve and digitize all of the original full interviews gathered in the making of the Alaska Review series. Copies of finished productions are also held by Alaska State Library Historical Collections in Juneau. For more information, please contact the Alaska Film Archives at University of Alaska Fairbanks.
This sequence contains excerpts from AAF-4961 from the Alaska Review collection held by the Alaska Film Archives, a unit of the Alaska and Polar Regions Collections & Archives Department in the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks. For more information please contact the Alaska Film Archives.
Flying a Mooney across the NWT, Yukon and Alaska
Landing at CYBW (Calgary/Springbank, AB), CYQU (Grande Prairie, AB), CYHY (Hay River, NT), CYYE (Fort Nelson, BC), CYXY (Whitehorse, YT), PAOR (Northway, AK), PAGK (Gulkana, AK), PAMR (Anchorage/Merrill, AK), PAWD (Seward, AK) and PAUN (Unalakleet, AK)
Misty Fjords float plane trip
Alaska, l'autre pays de l'aviation
Un pays où l'aviation est reine ! La plupart des déplacements se font en avion : du 737 Omnibus qui dessert quotidiennement Seatlle, WA, Ketchikan, Wrangell, Juneau, Anchorage au Dash-8 pour Prudhoe Bay et Barrow en passant par les monomoteurs légers pour les petits aérodromes pour la plupart a peine aménagés .... sans parler des hydravions. Rien que du plaisir ! Tous les plans d'eau sont des hydrobases en puissance, loin de la réglementation européenne qui chaque année grignote un peu plus les privilèges des pilotes VFR... Beurk cette Europe là !
CG Demonstration
CG Air Station Sitka gives a demonstration at CG Base ketchikan open house, August 2011
Bear tour, Kodiak Alaska
Geographic Harbor near Kodiak. Up-close and personnel with a Brown Bear.
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David Travels Series - Episode 10 - Alaska - HD
In this episode, we travel the famous Alaska coastline via the Norwegian Jewel cruise ship. Traveling by cruise provides the greatest opportunity to cover the most ground in a week’s timeframe. Our cruise departs from Seattle and stops in Ketchikan, Juneau, Skagway, BC, Canada then back to Seattle.
Alaska offers so many amazing sights, it was hard to squeeze it all into one episode. So I only picked the top 3 destination ports for this episode. Sit back, relax and I hope you enjoy this extended episode of David Travels.
Ketchikan, is a city in Ketchikan Gateway Borough, Alaska, United States.
Ketchikan’s economy is based upon tourism and fishing. The City is known as the Salmon capital of the world!
Ketchikan serves as both an air and marine transportation hub for southern Southeast Alaska.
The Ketchikan International Airport serves as both a gateway for Alaska Airlines jet service to and from Seattle, Juneau and Anchorage
A little thoughtful planning had me booked on an Indiana Jones style air/land adventure over Misty Fjords wilderness area with SeaWind Aviation.
They fired up the de Haviland Beaver Seaplane. Originally introduced in 1947, this plane is still the workhorse of many as the gold standard of seaplanes.
A seaplane is has floats for wheels to use for take off and landing and only one engine, propeller and pilot.
Some of nature’s most majestic work in Alaska is a short flight from Ketchikan. This unique landscape is over 2 million acres of protected land filled with brown and black bears, mountain goats, humpback whales and bald eagles..
We touched down on a high, remote mountain lake and my companions and I actually got out to take photos by standing on the floats. The peace and quiet of this moment was unparalleled.
Next Stop, Juneau AK
Juneau is named after gold prospector Joe Juneau. It’s situated close to the Mendenhall and Lemon Creek Glaciers.
Orca Whales were playing off the bow. Orca whales or Killer whales are a toothed whale belonging to the oceanic dolphin family.
On the way back to town, we stopped at the famous Mendenhall Glacier. This glacier is 12 miles long. The lake infront was formed by melting ice. The glacier has also receded 1.75 miles since 1958 and will continue to retreat in the foreseeable future.
Back at the city, we stopped in the Red Dog Saloon for lunch.
This world famous saloon has provided hospitality and fellowship to weary travelers and local patrons alike since 1940.
Some old timers tell locals the Red Dog Saloon used to be just a tent on the beach during the mining heydays.
Back on the ship this time the inside passage treated us to mile high walls of granite rock and an up close view of some more huge glaciers.
Skagway, AK
In a single year from 1896 to 1897, this remote town along the inside passage grew from a few tents to a city of 20,000 gold seekers.
The area around present day Skagway was inhabited by the Tingit people from prehistoric times. They fished and hunted in the waters and forests and traded with other groups for supplies they needed.
The White Pass Trail, was one of the two main passes used by prospectors during the Yukon Gold Rush. The Yukon gold rush was an attempt by 100,000 people to travel to this area in search of their gold fortunes. Most failed and many never made it back home from these extremely harsh conditions.
This area is packed with wildlife. Brown and black bears actually use the road for easy travel. So you don’t even have to get out of your car to see them. Just keep your eyes open on the drive.
We have reached our destination. Emerald Lake, It is the largest of Yoho's 61 lakes and ponds, as well as one of the park's premier tourist attractions.
Due to its high altitude, the lake is frozen from November until June. The vivid turquoise color of the water, caused by powdered limestone, is most spectacular in July as the snow melts from the surrounding mountains.
During the summer months, canoe rentals are available; in the winter, the lake is a popular cross-country skiing destination.
The lake is enclosed by mountains of the President Range, as well as Mount Burgess and Wapta Mountain. This basin traps storms, causing frequent rain in summer and heavy snowfalls in winter.
Emerald Lake Lodge, a high-end lodge perched on the edge of the lake, is available for local accommodation.
Our final journey during the voyage home treated us to spectacular snow-capped mountain ranges set against lush green landscapes.
Anan Creek bear viewing
A day watching bears fishing for salmon at Anan Creek, in south-east Alaska near Wrangell Island
SOUTHEAST ALASKA MAGNIFICENT NORTHLAND 1950s TRAVELOGUE 56804
Produced by Joseph Yolo and narrated by Tom Bostic, Southeast Alaska: Our Magnificent Northland is a short film promoting Southeast Alaska. Despite the end of the gold rush era, Alaska still has a special allure to it. Unlike much of the rest of the state—and countries with a similar latitude—Southeast Alaska has a mild climate, tempered by a warm water current. Covering much of Southeast Alaska is the Tongass National Forest (02:31), home to millions of hemlock and spruce, totem poles, and abundant wildlife. Southeast Alaska’s principle towns are Skagway, Juneau, Sitka, Wrangell, and Ketchikan. Ketchikan (03:45) is the “salmon capital of the world.” Commercial fishing and fishing tourism dominate the region, thanks to large populations of salmon and Alaskan Black Cod (04:20). Pontoon planes (04:33) are a common mode of transportation: Alaska has seventy times the per-capita use of airplanes than the rest of the U.S. Juneau, Alaska’s capital, now has a modern airport to service airline jets (04:55), making travel to Southeast Alaska easier and more affordable. Another major attraction of Southeast Alaska is the totem poles (06:25) that dot the landscape. Residents and tourists alike enjoy all that Southeast Alaska has to offer, including Tongass National Forest (07:48), playing on sandy beaches (08:00), and dog-powered transportation (08:16). Mendenhall Glacier and Mendenhall Lake (08:33; 09:50) are not only major tourist attractions, but they also provide jobs to those willing to harvest the pure ice (08:54). North and South Sawyer Glaciers (09:19) at the end of Tracy Arm, producing tons of icebergs, are another highlight of the region. The glaciers are receding, and the receding Mendenhall glacier left an ancient fertile bed that is now used for agriculture (10:08). The U.S. Forest Service is developing the Tongass National Forest (10:34) so that it can help build and support Alaskan communities. Logging in Tongass National Forest (10:56) is a major industry, and portable mills (11:05) are brought in to saw spruce needed for packing cases, which are used to ship the thousands and thousands of pounds of frozen fish. Wildlife, like bears (12:42), also enjoy the region’s abundance of fish. A popular annual event is the Golden North Salmon Derby (13:10) in Juneau, held in July at Auke Bay and Tee Harbor. Sponsored by the Territorial Sportsmen, fishermen from all over come to the derby to fish the 3-day event. Requirements stipulate that there must be at least two people on each boat, and fishermen must bring salmon to the boat unaided. Participants head to the Tea Harbor weighing station (15:10) to compare catches. All catches become property of the Territorial Sportsmen, and the proceeds go to fund scholarships. Commercial fishing is the biggest industry, and it provides employment for 20,000 people each year (16:05). Traps are used in salmon passage ways to catch fish for canning in an operation called brailing. The protection of Alaskan salmon is critical in order to preserve this natural resource that is the backbone of Southeastern Alaska’s economy: commercial fishermen must release at least as many salmon as they catch.
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Flying from Ketchikan to Sitka - The whole flight!
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MY MOST FAVORITE part of the state! Southeast Alaska! Personally I think this is some of the most beautiful parts of Alaska. Perhaps its due to its temperate rainforest and how lush and green everything is. It is truly a magical region of Alaska.
Ketchikan is the first port on the cruise ships list when taking a cruise to Alaska. Most of the time is spent sailing the Inside Passage which means navigating through the amazing fjords in this area.
The next stop that cruise ships to Alaska make is typically Sitka Alaska. For me, Sitka is the absolute TOPS and a NOT TO BE MISSED city on your trip through the inside passage!!!
Stay tuned for the next video which is flying fro Sitka to Juneau.
The flights between these small towns takes about 30 minutes and can be found on Alaska Airlines.
Thanks for watching the adventures of This Alaskan Life!
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Here are just a few of the things you will see here.... Humpback whales, Black Bears, Backpacking, Polar Bears, Arctic Fox, Grizzly Bears, Arctic Ocean, Kayaking, mountains, below zero temperatures, honey bees in Alaska, dog mushing in Alaska, summer in Alaska, summer solstice in Alaska, driving tours, winter solstice in Alaska and so much more!
Flying on Alaska's Milk Run
The Milk Run refers to the daily circuit of Alaska Airlines flights that hop between towns in Southeast Alaska, serving as a lifeline for the communities that aren’t always connected by roads to the outside world. In aviation, the term “milk run” refers to a scheduled flight with many stops, or a routine journey.
This was the coolest video I've filmed yet! Alaska is my #1 favorite state, so it was a pleasure documenting this historic flight. I recommend following me on Instagram @quintinsoloviev & @qfsaviation to keep up with my travels as they happen!
Airline: Alaska Airlines
Aircraft: Boeing 737-790 (N614AS)
Seat: 3A (First Class)
Flight Number: AS64
Route: ANC to JNU to PSG to WRG to KTN
Flight Time: 5 hours, 40 minutes
Ticket Price: $549
Date of Travel: February 19, 2019
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