Members from Air Station Kodiak, Alaska, make their way toward a plane crash memorial site on a hillside of Pyramid Mountain on Kodiak Island to pay tribute during the 20th anniversary memorial service, June 26, 2015.
The plane crash took the lives of three Coast Guardsmen and a civilian pilot, June 30, 1995.
U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Lauren Steenson.
The crew of a Coast Guard MH-65 Dolphin helicopter flies over a plane crash memorial site on a hillside of Pyramid Mountain on Kodiak Island to pay tribute during the 20th anniversary memorial service, June 26, 2015.
The plane crash took the lives of three Coast Guardsmen and a civilian pilot, June 30, 1995.
U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Lauren Steenson.
Members from Air Station Kodiak, Alaska, clean up and maintain a plane crash memorial site on a hillside of Pyramid Mountain on Kodiak Island, June 19, 2015.
The plane crash took the lives of three Coast Guardsmen and a civilian pilot, June 30, 1995.
U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Lauren Steenson.
Members from Air Station Kodiak, Alaska, clean up and maintain a plane crash memorial site on a hillside of Pyramid Mountain on Kodiak Island, June 19, 2015.
The plane crash took the lives of three Coast Guardsmen and a civilian pilot, June 30, 1995.
U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Lauren Steenson.
Chief Warrent Officer Dale Estilette, Capt. Mark Morin and Master Chief Petty Officer David Ozuna pay tribute to their former shipmates at a plane crash memorial site on a hillside of Pyramid Mountain on Kodiak Island, Alaska, June 19, 2015.
All three men were stationed at Air Station Kodiak when a plane carrying three Coast Guardsmen and a civilian pilot crashed, June 30, 1995.
U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Lauren Steenson.
KODIAK, Alaska — Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak, Alaska, members paid tribute to three fallen Coast Guardsmen and a civilian pilot during a 20th anniversary memorial service, June 26, 2015.
On the evening of June 30, 1995, sometime before 8 p.m. an Island Air Piper Saratoga airplane crashed into the side of Pyramid Mountain carrying three Kodiak-based air station Coast Guardsmen. Killed were Chief Petty Officer Douglas Cooper, 38, Petty Officer 1st Class Danny Jackson, 35, Petty Officer 2nd Class Rodney Parsons, 31, and their pilot Christopher Canfield, 33. They were returning to Kodiak City from the village of Karluk where they had been fishing and rafting nearby.
The weather conditions at the time of the crash were reported as overcast skies with a 700-foot ceiling and visibility of seven miles.