Larry David Gangle was 31 when he disappeared while flying near the Bernard Glacier in Alaska. On August 8, 1985 he was a passenger in a Maule M-5-235C that was en route to return to the Jake’s Bar airstrip to pick up another passenger but never arrived.

Searches yielded no sign of the aircraft or its occupants for years. On August 12, 1991 hunters found wreckage at about 1,000 feet elevation; the National Transportation Safety Board reported the plane had collided with terrain and the wreckage was widely scattered, in part from rock slides. The discovery confirmed that Gangle and the pilot died from injuries sustained in the crash.

If anyone has memories of Larry, knew his travel plans, or has information about the flight and its final route, please share what you know.