Alaska Department of Public Safety, Alaska
End of Watch: Tuesday, October 11, 1994
Age: 51
Tour of Duty: 27 years
Badge Number: Not available
Cause of Death: Aircraft accident
Date of Incident: October 11, 1994
Weapon Used: Not available
Suspect Info: Not available
Deputy Commissioner Swack Swackhammer and Sergeant Robert Lee Bittick, of the Alaska State Troopers, were killed in an airplane accident in British Columbia, Canada, just north of Haines, Alaska.
Sergeant Bittick was piloting the department's Grumman Goose seaplane from Anchorage to Juneau when it crashed into a mountainside during a snowstorm.
Deputy Commissioner Swackhammer had served with the Alaska State Troopers for 25 years and had been appointed by the governor to the Alaska Department of Public Safety. He is survived by his wife, two sons, and daughter.