More detail on this person: Hiller 12E blade
failed at Wrangle, AK while working for Temsco
Helicopters in Ketchikan, AK. This information was last updated 05/18/2016
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Date posted on this site:
03/10/2024
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Date of death was 28 Sept 1978. Blade failed due
to after market counter weight in blade failing
and contacting the tail rotor. The aircraft was
on final to landing Wrangel, 50' AGL at the time
of the failure which caused the aircraft to
contact the ground inverted.
Additional information about my father can be
found in the book, Nine lives of an Alaska Bush
Pilot, which is an Auto Biography by Ken Eichner.
Ken Eichner was the owner of TEMSCO and
pioneer of Alaskan bush aviation.
For other information, or if anyone has
information about my father's tour in Vietnam, I
would love to hear about it.
Nate Maplesden,