Small Plane Makes Emergency Landing in Puget Sound

July 27, 2022 by Leave a Comment

Yesterday late afternoon, a pilot was forced to make an emergency landing off the shores of Alki. You may have noticed the Cesna flying lower than usual coming from around Blake Island and heading towards Alki.

According to the pilot from the audio in the video (flight simulator), the oil pressure was low.

It’s amazing that neither the pilot or anyone else was seriously injured (or worse) considering how many people are enjoying Puget Sound during this heat wave. The pilot was able to walk away following this “successful” landing.

Here is another video of the landing from @Mihai_Melonari via Twitter

 

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Rally to stop Cell Phone Towers near Alki Elementary tomorrow night

May 6, 2015 by Leave a Comment

photo for press releaseEDITORS NOTE: The following was submitted by Barb Morgen:

Parents of students a Alki Elementary will join 50 neighbors and community supporters in attending the “Stop Alki Cell Towers” Information Rally and Demonstration on Alki Beach, Thursday, May 7 at 7 p.m.  Rally will end with kids throwing 12 cardboard cell tower replicas into a fire pit, as a way of saying they don’t want 12 new cell antenna transmitters to be built so close to their school.  

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Help Clean Up Alki Beach Park this Saturday, August 3rd

July 29, 2013 by 1 Comment

The Alki Community Council is jointly sponsoring the Seal Sitter’s clean up of Alki Beach Park this Saturday from 9:00 am to noon.  For more information, or to rsvp for this event, click here.

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Happy 100th Birthday, Alki Light House!

June 1, 2013 by

Today’s celebration marking the 100th birthday of the Alki Light House began at the Log Museum at noon. The museum is featuring a new exhibit with items from the light house and has free cookies and coloring for the little ones.

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The Alki Light House is set to open in a few minutes (1:00 pm) to start their celebration… stay tuned and be sure to check out Scupper’s photos taken from the Sound of the light house.

UPDATE 1:45 PM:  The Alki Light House is doing tours and, as standard procedure, they limit how many people may enter at a time.

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While you wait for turn to celebrate on the Alki Light House grounds, they have quizzes available or you can learn how to tie various knots.

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