(Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News) (left) Rune Monstad holds daughter Signy Monstad, while Amelia Monstaad holds son Hugo and Thor climbs on a Piper PA 28-140 plane the family bought in Haines, Alaska. The Haines Junction family intends to suspend the plane in a Quonset hut on their property for use as a children’s playhouse.

A plane built in the 1960s has flown away with the interests of several Haines residents, even after a debilitating crash…

Rashah McChesney is a multimedia journalist and editor who has reported and edited newsrooms from the Deep South to the Midwest to Alaska. For the past decade, she has worked in collaborative news as the...