Pilot Andy Bachner’s account of the 1964 Alaska earthquake

• Main Author: Tape, Carl
• Format: Audio
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Research Subject Categories::HUMANITIES and RELIGION::History and philosophy subjects::History subjects; Research Subject Categories::NATURAL SCIENCES::Earth sciences::Endogenous earth sciences; Fairbanks; Anchorage; Bonanza; Eielson; Beaver Creek; Alaska
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11122/9612

On Friday, March 27, 1964, at about 4:30pm, a 22-year-old pilot named Andy Bachner took off from Fairbanks International Airport on a training flight for Wien Airlines. Alongside Bachner in the single-engine Tri-Pacer plane was the flight instructor, Don Edgar Jonz. Their instrument training flight...