The average passenger on these flights doesn't know good weather from bad.  They put they're trust and lives in these pilots hands and pay the price .  Most crashes read the same---at the end of the day the pilot screwed up . I'm not saying that in this case , but in over 95 percent of Alaskan crashes that ends up being the cause .      How about the recent case where planes are flying all over the peninsula looking for the plane only to find out the knucklehead pilot was clear on the other side of the inlet ?  These pilots don't seem to care in the least about all those being forced to risk their lives searching for them or about the families left behind to wonder because they're plane was never found.