Samantha Davis was nine when she and her two younger sisters disappeared after a plane crash on February 9, 2005. The family was flying from Anchorage to Port Alsworth in a Cessna 206 piloted by their father, Jeremy Davis, when white-out conditions and poor visibility led the aircraft to strike the frozen surface of Lake Clark about six miles north of Port Alsworth. The impact broke the plane through the ice and it sank rapidly into water reported to be about 800 feet deep.

Samantha and her sisters, seven-year-old Jesse and six-year-old Katherine, were unable to escape the sinking aircraft. Their parents, Jeremy and Michelle Davis, got out onto the ice; the father tried to unbuckle his daughters but could not and had to cut his own seatbelt to survive. The couple then walked two miles in blowing snow to an empty cabin and used a radio to call for help. They were treated for hypothermia and injuries. The NTSB attributed the crash to the pilot’s loss of depth perception during a turn in whiteout conditions, and recovery of the airplane and children was not immediately possible because of the depth and conditions.

Did anyone in the Port Alsworth area at the time hear or see anything that could shed further light on that flight or the days that followed?