On a September day in 2004, 69-year-old Lloyd Dick Koenig of Pleasanton, California, flew from Sitka, Alaska, with four other men toward the remote Baranof Wilderness Lodge. Koenig was aboard a de Havilland DHC-2 Beaver piloted by 25-year-old Eric Johnson. Bad weather and low clouds forced the pilot to route around Baranof Island over open water. The Beaver never arrived; the first plane in the party had landed safely about an hour earlier.

Harris Aircraft Services reported the overdue flight at 1:35 p.m., prompting a nine-day search by the U.S. Coast Guard, Civil Air Patrol, and Harris pilots. Despite covering thousands of miles of shoreline and inland passes and following several tips, searchers found no wreckage, no ELT signal, and no survivors. The NTSB lists the airplane as missing and presumed crashed, and the pilot and four passengers are presumed to have sustained fatal injuries. The exact circumstances remain unknown.

Did anyone on the trip or in Sitka at the time see or hear anything that could still help explain what happened to that flight?