Palmer resident Joshua Seagrave, the pilot killed when his plane crashed in the Matanuska River this week, was an Army veteran who had recently begun a new career as a bush pilot in Alaska.
Brothers Jacob, left, Joshua, middle, and father Stephen Seagrave were together in Palmer in September 2022. Joshua Seagrave died Thursday when his plane crashed in the Matanuska River near Chickaloon.
“It is with profound sadness that I share that my son, Joshua, died in a plane crash in Alaska on Thursday,” his father, Stephen Seagrave, said inJoshua Seagrave spent 10 years as a U.S. Army Ranger and another decade as a parachute instructor based out of Arizona, his father said. The couple, who had been together for 15 years, had dreamed of moving to Alaska for years, his father said.“He just loved the outdoors and doing things that nobody else had done,” Stephen Seagrave said.
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