Along with Petr Kellner, one of Europe’s richest men, the 2021 crash in the Chugach Mountains near Palmer killed two well-known American guides, a French snowboarder and the Wasilla-based pilot.
One man survived: Czech snowboarder David Horvath, 48 at the time. But two others — Kellner and Harms —and died before rescuers arrived, according to an account Horvath has given his attorney. Kellner was found outside the helicopter, as if he had been able to move on his own for at least some time following the crash. Horvath suffered hypothermia and severe frostbite.
The report, written by chief investigator Joshua Cawthra, states that description was consistent with whiteout conditions caused by rotor wash kicking up snow while the helicopter hovered. An Alaska Army National Guard helicopter crew responded to a helicopter crash in the Chugach Mountains, near Knik Glacier, Sunday, March 28, 2021.
After noticing the helicopter’s signal hadn’t moved for 40 minutes, the lodge’s flight follower told a supervisor “there had been ‘no positive comms’” with guide Harms for 90 minutes, NTSB investigator Cawthra wrote. “However, the remote area in which the accident flight was operating had limited communication capabilities, and no clear evidence indicated that an accident had occurred.”
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