Sara Northup-Lynch

Upstate New Yorkers Fred Northup and James Feola of Cassville, both 62-years-old, crashed their Cessna 182 airplane into an unfrequented and remote frigid mountainside in Alaska, "hard enough that one of its wings was gone, and their gear scattered across the" terrain.

It's not something you hear about every day. Two Utica area men crash into a frigid Alaskan mountainside during a storm, in one of the most remote places in the country, near Mt. St. Elias, Alaska, according to AlaskaPublic.org. 62-year-old James Feola of Cassville and 62-year-old Fred Northup of Fairfield, both experienced pilots, crashed their Cessna 182 into the frigid mountainside "hard e