The Discovery Channel’s “Flying Wild Alaska” series’ star, Bush pilot Jim Tweto, and an Idaho hunting and fishing guide were both died when their light plane crashed shortly after takeoff, according to Alaska State Troopers. In the past ten years, three seasons of the television series have focused on Tweto’s family-run rural aviation company in Unalakleet. According to the statement, he and passenger Shane Reynolds of Orofino, Idaho, perished on Friday not far from the coastal community of Shaktoolik, about 125 miles (200 kilometers) east of Nome.
Around 11:48 a.m. on Friday, troopers received word that an SOS had been activated and that a Cessna 180 had crashed 35 miles to the northeast of Shaktoolik.
Jim Tweto obituary
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We offer our sincere condolences to the deceased’s friends and family, who have been finding it difficult to accept losing such a knowledgeable and kind person.