On the evening of January 29, 2019, 30-year-old flight nurse Stacie Rae Morse was aboard a Guardian Flight King Air 200 (tail number N13LY) that disappeared en route from Anchorage to Kake, Alaska, to transport a patient. The flight carried two other crew: 63-year-old pilot Patrick Coyle and 43-year-old flight paramedic Margaret Langston. Stacie was 26 weeks pregnant with her first child and worked in the emergency department and critical care unit at Bartlett Regional Hospital.

Debris consistent with a plane was found about 22 miles west of Kake near the southern tip of Admiralty Island in Chatham Strait. The Coast Guard searched for 63 hours before suspending operations; the three crew members’ bodies were not recovered. The wreckage was later located and retrieved from Frederick Sound at roughly 500 feet, and the NTSB concluded the event was a loss of control for reasons that could not be determined; the cockpit voice recorder had not been functional since 2015. A scholarship fund was created in Stacie’s memory and her fiancé later filed a wrongful death lawsuit that was settled out of court.