Looks like mail will be even more problematic for quite a while. Condolences out the the family members of all the folks killed in the last 8 days by float plane accidents by our contract mail carrier, Taquan Air. That is the 4th Taquon plane in the last 12 months, with the last 3 being very recent. Same plane that crashed yesterday, clipped my friends Pickup at our boat dock with its wing, splitting the roof of the truck. No real damage to the wing was noted. Next day the plane crashed...
https://www.ktuu.com/content/news/Fl...510192071.html
Alaska is a tuff place to be a pilot.. week before there was a mid air collision between Taquan Air float plane, and a smaller Taquon beaver in the channel leading into Ketchikan with more fatalities.. not sure what is going on, but it has been a tuff year for float planes in our neck of the woods
Marko