Alaskan Command operations director killed in civilian aircraft crash

An Air Force fighter pilot and colonel who served as the operations director for the U.S. military’s Alaskan Command was killed in an off-base crash involving a small civilian aircraft Tuesday, the Air Force said.

Air Force Col. Mark “Tyson” Sletten, 46, of Anchorage, was one of two people in a Piper PA-18 two-seat aircraft that crashed in Crescent Lake near Moose Pass on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula. An underwater drone on Thursday found Sletten’s body, and that of a Utah man, 41-year-old Paul Kondrat, inside the aircraft, submerged under about 193 feet of water, Alaska state troopers said in a news release.

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