KATAMI NATIONAL PARK, Alaska, Oct. 2 (UPI) -- The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating a weekend plane crash that killed four people in Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve.
Canadians Greg Brophy, 44, and his brother, Sean, 49, were on a fly-fishing expedition with a guide and a pilot when their leased floatplane crashed Sunday. The wreckage was found near a lake about six miles from the Royal Wolf Lodge, a 120-acre private fishing lodge that charges $6,650 per week, the Anchorage Daily News reported.
Greg Brophy was president of Securit Information Security, headquartered in Oakville, Ontario.
Officials said the pilot did not send a distress signal before the aircraft slammed into trees in the northern portion of the park northeast of King Salmon. The weather was overcast with light rain when the plane went down.
Twenty-nine people have died in plane crashes in Alaska since Sept. 30, 2006, the newspaper said.
