ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - Floatplane pilot Eric Lee feels that the dangerous incident he experienced in Halibut Cove earlier this week should be investigated by law enforcement.
Lee owns Alaska Ultimate Safaris in Homer and had his plane intentionally circled at close proximity by a boater in Halibut Cove as he was attempting to exit the area with flightseeing passengers on board. A video clip of the encounter went viral, and Lee said he hopes it doesn’t happen again.
In his over 20 years of flying, Lee said that he has never experienced anything resembling what happened on Tuesday. In a phone interview, Lee said he was taxiing through Halibut Cove and preparing to take off for a trip with seven passengers on board when he spotted an aluminum boat approaching him.
“The aluminum boat was coming toward me, I thought they were trying to get around me at first,” Lee said. “Then they started weaving back and forth fairly close to the aircraft.”
Lee said the narrow cove made it difficult to maneuver away from the boat and he worried about what would happen if it were to hit his plane.
Yes- like I said, there’s a history. She’s not right, but there’s been an ongoing “feud” where Eric has been running more and more flights a day- pissing her off. She’s also exhibiting symptoms of dementia.
Back in the day Halibut Cove was mostly Clem Tillion’s (her dad) land… he practically gave a lot of it away to young families with children in hopes that there would be enough kids for the state to build a school, and create an actual town. That didn’t happen, and those people sold out to rich lower 48’ers who built vacation homes. I think there’s still some bitterness there.
She’s quite the left wing looney as well.
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I dunno….it looked like pretty good boat driving’ to me. She was simply doing what the state patrol does on the freeway when they want people to slow down. 😂
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Yes- like I said, there’s a history. She’s not right, but there’s been an ongoing “feud” where Eric has been running more and more flights a day- pissing her off. She’s also exhibiting symptoms of dementia.
Back in the day Halibut Cove was mostly Clem Tillion’s (her dad) land… he practically gave a lot of it away to young families with children in hopes that there would be enough kids for the state to build a school, and create an actual town. That didn’t happen, and those people sold out to rich lower 48’ers who built vacation homes. I think there’s still some bitterness there.
She’s quite the left wing looney as well.
Ahh, so she's president of the Halibut Cove HOA for life.
Hmmm, Hazard to Navigation, Hindrance to a vessel, and several other I'm sure. She better hope she get's a municipal trial and not a CG Tribunal........
Shouldn't be too hard to identify the boat since the registration number is right there on the bow. I have flown out of Halibut Cove on a float plane and there isn't a whole lot of wiggle room there.
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I dunno….it looked like pretty good boat driving’ to me. She was simply doing what the state patrol does on the freeway when they want people to slow down. 😂
Really? Whoever was driving that boat should be in handcuffs! The boat driver was risking catastrophe and anyone who thinks that was ok is an idiot!.
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