Monday, July 20, 2015

VIDEO: Coast Guard, Partners Rescue Airplane Crash Survivors Near Juneau, Alaska




A Coast Guard Air Station Sitka MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew lowers rescue personnel to the site of a plane crash and hoists survivors for transport to medical care near Juneau, Alaska, July 17, 2015. 

The Coast Guard worked with Alaska State Troopers and Juneau Mountain Rescue to rescue four of the five people aboard the downed aircraft. One person (the black female pilot) died in the crash.

U.S. Coast Guard video by Air Station Sitka.