The U.S. Coast Guard suspended its
search at 11:30 a.m. EDT Sunday for the pilot of a plane that
crashed Saturday approximately 51 miles southeast of
Chincoteague Island.
A Coast Guard HC-130 Hercules airplane
crew searched until sunset Saturday and the crew of Coast
Guard Cutter Beluga searched through the night until Sunday morning
for wreckage or any sign of the pilot aboard the downed aircraft.
A fisherman in the vicinity of the
crash recovered a wheel and an engine cowling thought to belong to
the crashed plane and turned it over to the crew of Cutter Beluga.
Both items are scheduled to be turned over to the National Transportation Safety Board.
2 comments:
Single pilot operation above 14000 feet should be prohibited. It is simply unsafe.
The Cirrus SR22 is the new Doctor Killer. Expensive, complex and dangerous to those who are not proficient.
Very sad situation. Thanks for the comments.
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