Alaskan bush pilots are responsible for things like ferrying supplies to remote villages and backcountry tourism. Insider spoke to two bush pilots, Chad Smith and Hailey Zirkle, who currently fly to ...

Bush pilots operate in remote areas worldwide with little operational support. Career success and survival require excellent backcountry flying skills, self-reliance and resourcefulness, and above all ...

Bush-pilot lore celebrates the humor, quick thinking, grace under pressure and flying skills that sum up what it means to be ...

Travel into the world of the Alaskan Bush Pilot, a world of challenge and danger, not to mention some of the most awe-inspiring sights in the world. There are few runways here, so pilots take off and ...

Jim Tweto, the bush pilot featured in Discovery Channel’s 2011-2012 series Flying Wild Alaska, died in a small plane crash Friday near the coastal village of Shaktoolik, Alaska. He was 68. Also killed ...

Veteran bush pilot Bob Stanford risks everything to save hunters struggling to stay alive in a remote area of Kodiak. Island Air drops off a group of desperate hunters in the heart of the bush as a ...