WASILLA, Alaska _ A National Park Service helicopter reached the site of a crashed flightseeing plane near Denali on Friday morning.
Better weather allowed a high-altitude helicopter to get a ranger to the wreckage before 10 a.m., park service spokeswoman Katherine Belcher said.
Five people _ a pilot from Michigan and four passengers from Poland _ were aboard when the flightseeing plane crashed Saturday on a remote mountain deep in the Alaska Range. It was the deadliest accident in recent history for an air taxi flying into Denali National Park and Preserve.
The de Havilland Beaver is perched on a hanging glacier on the north side of a 10,500-foot ridge about 14 miles from the summit of Denali.
Bad weather persisted for days after the crash, allowing just a five-minute window for a mountaineering ranger who dropped to the wreckage by rope Monday to confirm that nobody aboard survived.
