A pilot from Saline is dead after his tourist airplane crashed in Alaska’s Denali National Park on Saturday, killing four other people.
The plane had taken off Saturday evening with a pilot and four passengers from Poland for a tour of Kahiltna Glacier.
After going down, the pilot, identified as Craig Layson, reported by satellite phone that passengers suffered injuries but the connection failed before he could give details.
Low clouds and rain prevented crews from spotting the wreckage until the weather cleared on Monday and a helicopter reached the crash site. A park service ranger descended by short-haul line.
The ranger dug through the snow covering the plane and found the bodies.
Layson was a part-time pilot for K-2 Aviation in Alaska, and was a businessman in Ypsilanti.
