The Associated Press
ANCHORAGE — Authorities in Alaska are hoping a missing floatplane carrying a pilot and three National Park Service workers simply landed in a cove to wait out the area’s abruptly changing weather.
Katmai National Park Superintendent Ralph Moore says he was concerned that there has been no radio transmission from the small plane, however.
The search for the plane continued today.
Aircraft have been checking the area between Swikshak Lagoon and the plane’s destination in King Salmon, about 285 miles southwest of Anchorage.
Coast Guard officials said the plane left Swikshak Bay at 2:45 p.m. Saturday for a flight that takes less than an hour.
The park service has identified the passengers as Mason McLeod and brothers Neal and Seth Spradlin. The pilot has not been identified.
The workers were on their way to rebuild an old ranger station.
