{"id":381326,"date":"2026-06-30T23:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T23:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/381326\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T23:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T23:03:08","slug":"pilot-in-fatal-crash-near-cordova-identified-as-california-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/381326\/","title":{"rendered":"Pilot in fatal crash near Cordova identified as California man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sans-serif\">The pilot who died in a mid-June <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adn.com\/alaska-news\/aviation\/2026\/06\/19\/pilot-dies-in-small-plane-crash-southeast-of-cordova\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.adn.com\/alaska-news\/aviation\/2026\/06\/19\/pilot-dies-in-small-plane-crash-southeast-of-cordova\/\">plane crash<\/a> was <a href=\"https:\/\/dailydispatch.dps.alaska.gov\/Home\/DisplayIncident?incidentNumber=AK26057378\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/dailydispatch.dps.alaska.gov\/Home\/DisplayIncident?incidentNumber=AK26057378\">identified by Alaska State Troopers on Tuesday<\/a> as 51-year-old California resident Michael Grimes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sans-serif\">The Piper Pacer that Grimes was flying between Yakutat and Fairbanks was reported overdue the evening of June 18, troopers said in an earlier statement. An Alaska Air National Guard helicopter crew located the plane the next day about 40 miles southeast of Cordova in a mountainous area near Kanak Island, troopers said. Grimes was found dead in the wreckage. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sans-serif\">Grimes was from the Bay Area and was a father of two daughters, according to a report in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/bayarea\/article\/alaska-plane-crash-michael-grimes-22319274.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/bayarea\/article\/alaska-plane-crash-michael-grimes-22319274.php\">San Francisco Chronicle<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sans-serif\">The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the crash. The agency had not released a preliminary report as of Tuesday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The pilot who died in a mid-June plane crash was identified by Alaska State Troopers on Tuesday as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":["post-381326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}