The U.S. Coast Guard
and local agencies are responding to a report of a downed
single-engine aircraft with one person aboard, northeast of Duluth,
Minn., in Lake Superior Saturday afternoon.
The name and hometown
of the person is not being released at this time, the Coast Guard
said in a press statement.
Coast Guard units
received a report from personnel at the Duluth International Airport
tower of a single engine white and maroon airplane spiraling
down with a loss of communications approximately seven nautical miles
east of Duluth.
A 45-foot Coast Guard
response boat was launched from Duluth along with a Dolphin
helicopter from Traverse City to search the area.
“Responders from
local agencies have located a debris field approximately 250 yards in
length which included the pilots log book and jet fuel,” Coast
Guard officials said Saturday.
The Duluth Fire
Department plans to deploy a remotely operated vehicle to assist in
the search.
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