ANCHORAGE, Alaska, March 24 (UPI) -- A U.S. Forest Service agent has been rescued four days after his single engine airplane crashed near a lake west of Anchorage, Alaska, authorities said.
John Burick, a USFS law enforcement special agent, was found unhurt Wednesday by the Alaska Air National Guard after crashing his Piper PA-18 Super Cub near the west end of Beluga Lake and spending four days in the wilderness, the Anchorage Daily News reported.
Burick, an avid outdoorsman, was well prepared to survive several days in the Alaska bush in March when the nighttime temperatures still dip well below freezing, the newspaper said.
A 210th Rescue Squadron HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopter found Burick after 10 hours of searching and flew him to Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson.
Forest Service spokesman Ray Massey said Burick's co-workers did not become worried about him until Tuesday because he often works independently away from the Anchorage office.
