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Bush pilot Jim Tweto, known for his starring role in the Discovery Channel’s “Flying Wild Alaska” series, was killed along with a hunting and fishing guide from Idaho when their small plane ...
Tweto, who was 68, and 45-year-old Idaho outdoor guide Shane Reynolds died in the crash. The 750-foot airstrip is on a rock- and grass-covered ridgeline, the preliminary report said.
The agency on Tuesday released a preliminary report on the crash that killed pilot Jim Tweto, 68, of Unalakleet, and Shane Reynolds, 45, of Orofino, Idaho.
] Jim Tweto was killed in a plane crash on June 16, 2023, at the age of 68. [3] [4] Ferno Tweto, the Unalakleet station manager and wife of COO Jim Tweto, was born in Anchorage and raised in Unalakleet. Ferno is also a pilot, earning her pilot certificate from a school in Everett, Washington in 1981. Ferno met Jim when he came to Unalakleet in ...
The accident killed all 3 pilots on board, including Ron Tweto, President of Hageland Aviation Services. January 6, 2011 A Cessna 208B Grand Caravan passenger plane, registered N715HE, sustained substantial damage in a landing accident at Kipnuk Airport, AK (KPN), U.S. None of the four passengers or two crew members were injured.
Reliant on bush pilots to transport him in and out of his home in the bush, he was incidentally featured in Flying Wild Alaska 2011 - 2012, as Korth had hired the series' protagonist Jim Tweto to fly him out of Fairbanks. [3] Heimo, Edna and their family, alongside 4 other families, make up the Discovery series The Last Alaskans which premiered ...
Jul. 12—A famed Alaska bush pilot's plane struck a tree while departing a remote ridgeline airstrip last month near Shaktoolik and then crashed onto the tundra, killing both people onboard, a ...
Discovery is treating Flying Wild Alaska as another completed series and has not released a statement about the show being canned. On the final episode the narrator called it the series finale and said the cause was Jim Tweto's pending retirement. Era Alaska is still a fully running airline with service to 85 destinations.