Mark Thiessen set out to write a story of survival about a pilot who had spent a night perched on the wing of his plane after ...

John B. Morris Jr. of Kenai was rescued alongside two school-aged family members off the top of a plane that was mostly submerged near Tustumena Lake. But federal aviation records show he holds a ...

The plane, a Piper PA-12 Super Cruiser registered to Morris, landed for unknown reasons near the toe of a glacier on Tustumena Lake, on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula on Sunday. The pilot and passengers ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A federal investigation into misuse of a student pilot’s license continues for an Alaska man who waited hours for rescue with two young family members on the wing of plane ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A federal investigation into misuse of a student pilot’s license continues for an Alaska man who waited hours for rescue with two young family members on the wing of plane ...

The plane was reported missing Sunday near Tustumena Lake on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula, about 80 miles southwest of Anchorage. One of about a dozen volunteer pilots who headed out in search of the ...

A pilot rescued with two young family members after they survived a night on the wing of an airplane partially submerged in an Alaska lake is a student pilot who was not ...