Photo Release: Coast Guard assists Alaska National Guard to rescue two after emergency landing on Kayak Island

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All photos by Lt. Jon Bartel, Air Station Kodiak.

CORDOVA, Alaska - Two men signal a Coast Guard helicopter crew, alerted by the Alaska National Guard, to their need for rescue from the beach at Kayak Island 62 miles southeast of Cordova May 8, 2011.

This is the second small plane crash the Coast Guard crew, forward deployed to Cordova from Aitr Station Kodiak, has responded to in less than a week.

U.S. Coast Guard photo by Lt. Jon Bartel.

CORDOVA, Alaska - Petty Officer 2nd Class Joshua McCarthy, left, carries gear from a downed small plane to a Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter while Petty Officer 1st Class Scott Gordon, center, talks to one of the two passengers of the aircraft while Lt. Jesse Wright, right, waits for them in the helicopter on the beach at Kayak Island 62 miles southeast from Cordova May 8, 2011.

The Coast Guard crew, forward deployed to Cordova from Kodiak, rescued the two men and returned them to Cordova.

U.S. Coast Guard photo by Lt. Jon Bartel.

For further information contact Petty Officer 2nd Class Walter Shinn at 907-321-4513.

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