Air Force colonel one of 2 men killed when small plane crashed into Alaska lake

Anchorage, Alaska — An Air Force colonel who was director of operations for the Alaskan Command was one of two men whose bodies were found in a small plane that crashed into a remote lake, the Alaska Department of Public Safety said Thursday.

Alaska Wildlife Troopers and the Alaskan Command identified the men as Col. Mark "Tyson" Sletten, 46, of Anchorage, and Paul Kondrat, 41, of Utah.

They were aboard a small plane on an instructional flight that crashed into Crescent Lake near Moose Pass on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula, authorities said.