On January 29, 2019, a Guardian Flight King Air 200 on approach to Kake, Alaska, disappeared from radar while carrying pilot Patrick Joseph Coyle, 63, flight paramedic Margaret Langston, 43, and flight nurse Stacie Morse, 30, who was pregnant. The Juneau-based medical transport had departed Anchorage and was due in Kake to pick up a patient. Minutes before arrival the aircraft vanished over Frederick Sound; debris was found the next day about 22 miles west of Kake near the southern tip of Admiralty Island.

Recovery teams later located major portions of the wreck on the seafloor at about 500 feet, but the three crew members’ bodies were never recovered. The NTSB found the airplane entered a rapid, uncontrolled descent, dropping roughly 2,575 feet in 14 seconds, and concluded there was a loss of control for reasons that could not be determined; the cockpit voice recorder, though salvaged, contained no audio from the accident flight. If anyone has information about the flight, the wreckage, or knew any of the crew, please share what is known.