Claude Everett Swackhammer
1994
Claude Everett Swackhammer.
How He Died
Manner
Accident
Cause
Multiple traumatic injuries
What Happened
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.
Survivors
He is survived by his wife, two sons, and daughter.
Service Record
Also Served
Alaska Department of Public Safety
Deputy Commissioner
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