For the small, isolated communities of northern Alaska, the only way in – and the only way out – is by bush plane. Here, the Tweto family – husband and wife Jim and Ferno and their daughters Ariel and Ayla – provide the only lifeline to the frozen northern communities via their regional airline, Era Alaska. Premiering Thursday, September 6 at 10 p.m. ET/PT on Discovery Channel, Season 3 of FLYING WILD ALASKAfinds the Twetos and Era Alaska’s skilled pilots struggling to operate in the worst weather Alaska has seen in decades.
Back with six new episodes, Season 3 highlights for FLYING WILD ALASKA include:
- Ariel Tweto continues her quest to get her pilot’s license and faces the biggest obstacle of her career
- Massive solar flares wreak havoc on airplane equipment across Alaska
- Pilot Sarah Fraher has a sudden mid-air breach at 900 metres, in -40C temperatures
- Ariel joins a search-and-rescue team to help find a missing friend
- Pilot John Ponts is once again the rookie as he is transferred to Era’s most unforgiving hub: Barrow, Alaska
- Pilot Erik Snuggerud’s moose hunt turns into a fight for survival
- Pilot Doug Stewart attempts to land on a treacherous runway to fly schoolkids out for their first-ever visit to the mainland
- John Kapsner and his co-pilot race to find stranded snow machinists who have been out overnight in the deadly cold
- Pilot Ben Pedersen attempts to retrieve a priest in 65kph winds so he can deliver Easter mass in the villages
- Jim Tweto hopes to build a new cabin and gold mine, but must get 6,800kg of equipment across a thawing river to make his dream a reality