Talk:2013 Rediske Air DHC-3 crash

The Flickr photographer of the external link image of the aircraft...

...has written back to me, consenting to releasing the image on a requisite free license suitable for Commons. I will install it when he does change the license. --Mareklug ^talk 07:55, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Pending the license change. I've linked to an existing Wikimedia Commons photo of a Turbo Otter, which better represents the appearance of the incident aircraft than the stock radial engine version. I also sifted through the Keith B Pics photostream on Flickr.com until I found the specific link to the image, which offers all the available sizes. The biggest size is 500 x 357 pixels, most likely not the original camera image. The photographer's Flickr.com page is a mess, with no sets, galleries or albums, just one big heap of nearly 2,900 photos. — Quicksilver^{T @} 13:52, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Uploaded, placed. I asked Keith for a high-resolution image. --Mareklug ^talk 17:21, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

The photographer just informed me via FlickrMail that he declines to provide a high resolution image under the free license, as he is still interested in selling that. He says the low resolution image should suffice for printing needs, and if anyone is interested in the high resolution image, to contact him (presumably via Flickr). --Mareklug ^talk 07:48, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Merge proposal

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This article was kept at AfD in 2013, soon after the actual event, with an explicit not from the closer that a merge could/should be discussed. Over 10 years on, and there were only two brief follow-up reports: one in the ADN and Alaska Public Media . There's a few passing mentions in other reports on small aircraft accidents, but no analysis or new information that I would use to expand the article.

Now, I'd really like to improve our article on Rediske Air, but there's not much to go on outside of this event. It's the company's main claim to notability. Without merging them, we're left with a very stubby article and an article about an event that we can't expand any further. With them together, we can go into detail about the firm's history, place the accident in better context, and just generally make a much more comprehensive article on an interesting page of Alaskan history. I'll do the merge myself, obviously, if there are no objections. GreenLipstickLesbian💌🦋 18:27, 27 April 2025 (UTC)

• Oppose the article had continued coverage in the years after the crash. But I would support the other way around'. If Rediske Air is only notable for this event; I would agree with merging Rediske Air into this article. 95.98.65.177 (talk) 13:13, 19 May 2025 (UTC)
• Oppose I agree that this article should not be deleted and instead merge the airline page into this one. We need to keep this article. Zaptain United (talk) 02:01, 28 May 2025 (UTC)

  It makes more sense to merge the airline article into the accident article because the accident is the only reason the airline is even notable. Zaptain United (talk) 02:03, 28 May 2025 (UTC)

  Can anyone just merge these articles together Zaptain United (talk) 01:47, 3 June 2025 (UTC)

  You say you want to merge the articles, but you voted to oppose a merge. Did you cast the wrong vote by mistake? Thebiguglyalien (talk) 🛸 01:49, 26 July 2025 (UTC)

  I want to merge the airline article into this accident article instead of the other way around. Zaptain United (talk) 18:33, 26 July 2025 (UTC)

Notified: Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation, Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation/Aviation accident task force, Wikipedia:WikiProject Disaster management, Wikipedia:WikiProject United States, Wikipedia:WikiProject Alaska. Aviationwikiflight (talk) 16:24, 4 July 2025 (UTC)

• Support, this is one part of the airline's history, no need to separate it from the main article. Right now it's non-notable newscruft, and a condensed version can be added to the airline page. Thebiguglyalien (talk) 🛸 01:48, 26 July 2025 (UTC)

Notified: Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation, Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation/Aviation accident task force, Wikipedia:WikiProject Disaster management, Wikipedia:WikiProject United States and Wikipedia:WikiProject Alaska. Aviationwikiflight (talk) 16:41, 30 September 2025 (UTC)

• Redirect to de Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter#Accidents. I think there's a decent enough chance that if either article were taken to AfD today they'd be deleted as not meeting WP:NCORP for the air charter service, or WP:NEVENT for the crash. nf utvol (talk) 18:39, 30 September 2025 (UTC)

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