re: Saturday Night Friday Story: Hale Boggs Disappears in the Alaska Triangle-50 years later

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The pass is 400 msl with 6000 msl mountains on each side. A helicopter turned back that day because it was slogged in.

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I've flown over that pass dozens of times and hiked it several, it was not a challenge for a suitable pilot in a fixed wing. Choppers can fly with less visibility, but icing and wind affect them worse.

Helicopters had restrictions (such as flying in clouds in freezing weather) that most aircraft with decent pilots did not have.

I would never fly on a coptor across that pass. Constant wind. It beats choppers down to the ground.