Deputy Commissioner Claude Everett Swackhammer, Alaska Department of Public Safety, Alaska

Deputy Commissioner Claude Everett Swackhammer

Alaska Department of Public Safety, Alaska

End of Watch Tuesday, October 11, 1994

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Claude Everett Swackhammer

Deputy Commissioner Swack Swackhammer and Sergeant Robert Lee Bittick, of the Alaska State Troopers, were killed in an airplane accident in British Columbia, Canada, just north of Haines, Alaska.

Sergeant Bittick was piloting the department's Grumman Goose seaplane from Anchorage to Juneau when it crashed into a mountainside during a snowstorm.

Deputy Commissioner Swackhammer had served with the Alaska State Troopers for 25 years and had been appointed by the governor to the Alaska Department of Public Safety. He is survived by his wife, two sons, and daughter.

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Age 51
Tour 27 years
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Incident Details

Cause Aircraft accident
Location Overseas

aircraft accident

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Lived in Haines when this accident occurred it was a terrible loss of experience and talent for the State of Alaska, an awful tragedy for the families…..

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