The park’s mountaineering rangers tried last week to access the wreckage, which contains the bodies of the pilot and passenger, but the steep terrain poses too much risk, the National Park Service said Monday.
The wreckage still contains the bodies of the pilot and passenger. Mountaineering rangers flew to the crash site five times during the last week but encountered overhead rockfall when they attempted to lower technical ropes in gullies, the Park Service said Monday. Rangers also worked with helicopter pilots to see if they could hook into the wreckage “with a mechanical grabber on the end of a 450-foot-long line,” but decided that was also too risky, the agency said.
It’s possible the wreckage could be recovered if water levels drop or if rangers can reach the area on foot during winter conditions, officials say. The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the crash. An investigator used a drone to photograph the crash site, said Clint Johnson, the agency’s Alaska chief.
Johnson said he supported the decision to leave the wreckage in place, though it will complicate the investigation. “There’s a lot of other things we can look at that we will continue to look at: weather reports, pilot reports in that area, we’re trying to see if there was any kind of electronic tracking system that was being used there,” he said.
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