Steve Torpey

There's nothing else for us to do.

He saw me starting to slow down.

He could tell Fred was getting tired.

So it was time to basically depart scene and go to Yakutat and land.

What was the scene like when you got there?

Well, I remember transferring the controls over to the captain because I was too tired to fly.

And my job was just to basically navigate us from point A to point B. It was very quiet.

Nobody in the aircraft was really talking.

We were up front flying to a small little airport.

In January, nobody really uses that airport.

It's...

mostly a hunting and fishing location.

So we landed and there wasn't much there other than an ambulance.

And a crew took the survivors, brought them into the ambulance and they disappeared.

They went off to the hospital and that was it.

They were gone.

And

We started doing the post-flight inspection just to kind of look at things and see how things go.

And I remember looking at the aircraft and seeing a piece of it broken off.

And it was the antenna, our HF antenna, high-frequency antenna, was broken.