ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Tribune News Service) — The Bering Air flight that crashed near Nome last month, killing the pilot and all nine passengers, was more than 1,000 pounds too heavy for the icy ...

46-year-old Rhone Baumgartner, of Anchorage Baumgartner was traveling on Bering Air flight 445 to Unalakleet for the Alaska Native Health Consortium to help service a heating system critical to ...

Bering Air Bering Air is a family-owned airline headquartered in Nome. Its website says it’s been operating since 1979 and offers scheduled regional service, charter flights and cargo transport.

The flight, operated by Bering Air, was traveling from Unalakleet to Nome in Western Alaska, when its position was lost about 12 miles offshore, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.

Bering Air serves 32 villages in western Alaska from hubs in Nome, Kotzebue and Unalakleet. Most destinations receive twice-daily scheduled flights Monday through Saturday.

The U.S. Coast Guard for the Alaska maritime region reported on Friday that it located an aircraft matching the description of the missing Bering Air plane. Just after 6:15 p.m. ET, the Coast ...

The Cessna Grand Caravan operated by Bering Air as flight 445 crashed about 34 miles southeast of Nome, Alaska, on February 6. It was initially reported missing but was found the next day on ice ...

Mar. 19—The Bering Air flight that crashed near Nome last month, killing the pilot and all nine passengers, was more than 1,000 pounds too heavy for the icy weather it was flying into, according ...

In this screen grab from a Facebook livestream, residents from the Inupiat Eskimo village of Golovin in Alaska pose with a Bering Air pilot, Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025.

The Cessna Grand Caravan operated by Bering Air as flight 445 crashed about 34 miles southeast of Nome, Alaska, on February 6. It was initially reported missing but was found the next day on ice ...

Last week, the Bering Air single-engine turboprop that was part of that critical network crashed while traveling from Unalakleet to the hub community of Nome, a distance of about 150 miles (240 ...

The Cessna Grand Caravan operated by Bering Air as flight 445 crashed about 34 miles southeast of Nome, Alaska, on February 6. It was initially reported missing but was found the next day on ice ...