Bush pilot Jim Tweto, 68, a rural aviation figure known by many for his role on the Discovery series 'Flying Wild Alaska,' and 45-year-old Idaho passenger Shane Reynolds died in a plane crash Friday northeast of Shaktoolik, Alaska State Troopers said.
Longtime Unalakleet pilot Jim Tweto, seen in a scene from an episode of"Flying Wild Alaska" posted to YouTube in 2011. Tweto died Friday, June 16, 2023, at age 68 in a plane crash northeast of Shaktoolik that also killed 45-year-old passenger Shane Reynolds of Idaho, according to Alaska State Troopers.
Jim Tweto — a Unalakleet bush pilot and rural aviation figure who was known by many for his starring role on a documentary television series in the early 2010s — died Friday in a Western Alaska plane crash that also killed a passenger from Idaho, authorities said. Alaska State Troopers received notice of an SOS activation around 11:48 a.m. Friday, followed by a report that a Cessna 180 had crashed 35 miles northeast of Shaktoolik, troopers said in an onlineThe aircraft “was witnessed taking off but not climbing and then crashing,” troopers said in their report posted late Friday night.
Troopers received additional information saying the plane’s two occupants — identified as Tweto, 68, and 45-year-old passenger Shane Reynolds from Orofino, Idaho — were dead, the agency said. Troopers responding from Nome recovered both men’s bodies from the site of the crash, according to the agency.
Troopers said next of kin were notified, and the men’s bodies were taken to the State Medical Examiner’s Office in Anchorage.
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