A famed bush pilot and former star of a Discovery Channel series documenting his uncharted flights into the Alaskan wilderness died in a plane crash Friday, along with his passenger, according to ...

Jul. 12—A famed Alaska bush pilot's plane struck a tree while departing a remote ridgeline airstrip last month near Shaktoolik and then crashed onto the tundra, killing both people onboard ...

Alaskan Bush People is currently on hiatus on Discovery Channel. Bear Brown, a prominent figure from Discovery Channel’s Alaskan Bush People, has announced plans to return to Alaska with his family.

Alaskan Bush People is an American reality television series that follows the Brown family as they attempt to survive in the wilderness, detached from modern society. ALASKAN Bush People star Bear ...

Jim Tweto, the bush pilot featured in Discovery Channel’s 2011-2012 series Flying Wild Alaska, died in a small plane crash Friday near the coastal village of Shaktoolik, Alaska. He was 68.

The term “bush pilot” conjures up images of rugged individualists flying de Havilland Beaver floatplanes into Alaska’s most remote and difficult terrain. Such intrepid 20th-century aviators ...

UNALAKLEET, Alaska (KTUU/Gray) - Alaska State Troopers have reported that Jim Tweto, a noted bush pilot and member of the reality show “Flying Wild Alaska,” has died in a plane crash.