Body of missing pilot recovered from Alaska Range

David McRae stands alongside his Pilatus Porter turbo prop airplane.Photo provided by Kent Weight
The body and wreckage of a missing Alaska bush pilot and his plane were located Thursday morning in the Alaska Range, according to the Alaska National Guard.
In a release from the Guard, spokesperson Lt. Col. Candis Olmstead wrote that the body of David McRae, 55, was recovered and sent to the State Medical Examiner’s office, in Anchorage, Thursday afternoon.
McRae went missing in his Pilatus