Finding Carla: The Story That Forever Changed Aviation Search and Rescue - Paperback
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Finding Carla: The Story That Forever Changed Aviation Search and Rescue
In March 1967, a Cessna 195 flew from Oregon towards San Francisco carrying a family of three: Alvin Oien, Sr. (the pilot), his wife Phyllis and step-daughter Carla Corbus. Due to worse-than-predicted weather, it went down in the Trinity Mountains of California only eight miles from a highway and beneath a busy commercial airway. This was before radio-beacon type emergency locators were required...
Finding Carla is Ross Nixon's first book. His writing has appeared in Alaska Magazine. Born in Canada, he grew up in the United States on Washington's Olympic Peninsula, where he learned to fly. He has worked as a commercial diver, a police officer and served in the U.S. Navy Seabees as a welder. He makes his living as a commercial pilot, what he really wanted to be doing all along. An Alaskan...
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