Network TV Online
Network News Latest
Network News Video
Network Top Stories
Alaska News Videos
Alaska SuperViewer
ABC Alaska Obituaries
Email the ABC Alaska Newsroom
The CW in Alaska
ABC Alaska SuperWorks

Coast Guard Identifies Missing Crewmember

The Coast Guard today has identified the missing crew member from a fishing vessel that sank off Alaska's Aleutian Islands, killing the captain and three crew members. Chief Petty Officer Barry Lane said the Coast Guard cutter Munro searched for Satashi Konno of Japan overnight and aerial searches began at daylight today. Lane said Konno, whose age was unknown, was wearing a survival suit. But even with the suit, water temperatures are at 36 degrees and Lane says that makes survival tough.

Lane says the Coast Guard still does not know if Konno is the crew member who fell from the rescue basket as it was being lifted into a helicopter. The Seattle-based Alaska Ranger started taking on water shortly before 3 a.m. Sunday after losing control of its rudder 120 miles
west of Dutch Harbor, which is on Unalaska Island.

Viewer Poll

How do you feel about the 42 month sentence handed to Kohring?

  • Very Strict
  • Strict Enough
  • Not Strict Enough
  • Don't Care

Tonight on ABC

9.00
20/20
Vacation Rentals 411
Digital TV Transition Information
Desperate Housewives
Ugly Betty
Brothers and Sisters