Victims from deadly Alaska plane crash identified

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The remains of all nine people killed in a plane crash near Ketchikan were recovered Friday, and the victims were tentatively identified.

Chris John of the Ketchikan Volunteer Rescue Squad said three members from his organization reached the crash site Friday and were securing the aircraft, which was sitting at a steep angle.

Eight passengers from a Holland America Line cruise ship that left Seattle June 20 and their pilot died when their sightseeing plane went down on Thursday in Misty Fjords National Monument near Ketchikan.

The cause of the crash remains under investigation.

Erik Elvejord, a spokesman for Holland America Line, told Q13 FOX News that "none of the guests aboard the plane accident in Ketchikan were Washington state residents."


On Friday night, officials in Alaska tentatively identified the victims as 71-year-old Hal Cheney and 59-year-old Mary Doucette of Lodi, California; 31-year-old Glenda Cambiaso and 65-year-old Hugo Cambiaso of North Potomac, Maryland; 73-year-old June Kranenburg and 63-year-old Leonard Kranenburg of Medford, Oregon; 63-year-old Margie Apodaca and 70-year-old Raymond Apodaca of Sparks, Nevada; and the pilot, 64-year-old Bryan Krill of Hope, Idaho.