Update: 9 p.m. 

The Coast Guard and partner agencies that have been looking for a missing plane bound for Yakutat called off the search late Monday evening.

The plane, owned by longtime Haines pilot Sam Wright and carrying Yakutat couple Hans Munich and Tanya Hutchins, stopped emitting its radar signal near Mount Crillon at the southern end of the Fairweather Mountain Range. 

The three left Juneau on Saturday and were reported overdue that evening. Both…

Francisco Martínezcuello is the Chilkat Valley News summer reporter. Previously, he was in Southwest Alaska working for KYUK Public Media as a News Reporting Fellow from November 2022 through January...