August 13, 2011 - Plane Piloting Fatality at Tolstoi Creek

Tolstoi Creek, Beaver Mountains, Mount Hurst,

On a flight from McGrath to Anvik, Julia Walker, 52, of Anvik, and pilot Ernest Chase, 66, of Aniak, died when their plane crashed, between Beaver Mountains and Mount Hurst, on the east slopes of Tolstoi Creek.

Don and Rosemarie Evans, both 32, and children Donny, 10, and McKenzie, 8 -- survived the crash.

The cause of the crash was determined to be; "The pilot's decision to continue visual flight rules flight into instrument meteorological conditions, which resulted in an in-flight collision with mountainous terrain."
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