A helicopter carrying a pilot and three passengers who had been conducting fieldwork for an Alaskan government agency crashed Thursday night, killing all four people on board, the National Transportation Safety Board said Saturday.
The wreckage of the helicopter, a Bell 206, was found in a large, shallow lake in an extremely remote area about 50 miles southwest of Utqiagvik, which is the northernmost community in the United States and home to about 5,100 residents.
Officials are still investigating the cause of the crash, the NTSB said.
The three state employees on board, whose names have not been released, worked for the Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys and were conducting fieldwork near Utqiagvik, the Alaska Department of Natural Resources said on Facebook.
