Although Jim’s neck was broken in the accident, within months he was back to work, loading planes with essential supplies and flying the wilds of bush Alaska.” More than a decade later ...

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.

Though landing in remote areas of the Pacific Northwest isn’t what most people think of when they think of a commercial pilot, bush pilots in Alaska can earn a very good living flying aircraft ...

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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.

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. A social media ...