ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug. 23 (UPI) -- A search in western Alaska for a plane carrying four people, including three National Park Service employees, turned up no sign of the plane, officials said.
The National Park Service said the de Havilland Beaver float plane, owned by Branch River Air Service of King Salmon, disappeared after leaving Swikshak Lagoon Saturday afternoon on a return trip to King Salmon, the Anchorage Daily News reported Monday.
Officials said the weather was deteriorating throughout the search area.
The search covered a wide and rugged area between King Salmon and the park's Pacific coast, concentrating on river valleys that drain into Kamishak Bay, said the Park Service, which coordinated the search.
King Salmon is about 285 miles west of Anchorage. UPI
