Residents of rural Alaska are showing their support for a regional airline whose commuter plane crashed last week just south ...

It was an affecting scene, and it highlighted just how crucial air service is in rural Alaska communities like Golovin, an Inupiat Eskimo village of about 160 people just south of the Arctic Circle.

In this screen grab from a Facebook livestream, a resident of the Inupiat Eskimo village of Golovin in Alaska holds a sign that says ‘We Love Bering Air’ on Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025. Credit ...

Alaska is so vast that a postage stamp placed ... In the days after the crash, they came out to greet pilots in Golovin, an Inupiat Eskimo village of about 160 people, and other rural communities ...