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Judd
29th Dec 2019, 02:53
Request details of the 29 November 2019 fatal crash to a Piper Chieftain of Medivac Alaska, near Quartz Creek airport, South Alaska. Pilot understood to be Glen Morthorpe, ex Royal Australian Air Force

India Four Two
29th Dec 2019, 03:06
See here:

https://app.ntsb.gov/pdfgenerator/ReportGeneratorFile.ashx?EventID=20191130X55947&AKey=1&RType=Prelim&IType=FA

Judd
31st Dec 2019, 01:23
India Four Two. Many thanks for the prompt info. While I didn't know the pilot personally we were in the RAAF in the same era. He later became chief pilot of Polynesian Airlines in the South Pacific. By my estimation he would have been close to 80 years old when he was killed. Looks like he may have stretched his luck just a bit too far, flying in that environment at that age?