Posted on 12/30/2016 12:16:02 PM PST by BenLurkin
The US Coast Guard was searching Lake Erie Friday for a small plane carrying six people who had attended a Cleveland Cavaliers basketball game before flying out of the city late Thursday.
Three adults and three children were on board the aircraft, CNN affiliate WEWS reported. Their identities were not immediately known.
The twin-engine Cessna Citation 525 was headed for Ohio State University Airport in Columbus, Ohio, when it disappeared from radar, a Coast Guard statement said.
The Coast Guard dispatched a helicopter from air station Detroit and has partnered with the Canadian Coast Guard who sent a C-130 plane down to assist in the search, the statement said.
Coast Guard Cutter Bristol Bay is also on its way from Detroit to help, the Coast Guard said.
The search operation was being made very difficult by 12- to 15-foot waves on Lake Erie...
(Excerpt) Read more at ktla.com ...
Air traffic control directs you. They make me go over the ocean when I take off from Jacksonville,Fl area. Trying to keep you well away from major airport traffic.
Rich executive with a fast jet and little time behind the stick less than a year and not a professional, no copilot, at night, IFR conditions, bad weather, and late at night in a hurry to get home. Possible bird strike or mechanical failure, but no mayday call? Most likely pilot error CFIT from disorientation similar to JFK Jr. going down.
I live in the Columbus area and just listened to the local news. Seems the weather last night was terrible and several questioned the pilots decision to take off.
As Dr. Bones McCoy would say, “They’re dead, Jim!”
#23 sounds right on to me.
I am in the maritime business in Charleston which is a about 60 air miles to Savannah....the USCG bases their helo’s in Beaufort which is about halfway in between both seaports....smart use of their assets.
Which anti Clinton witness was in that one?
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Beaufort has a Marine Air Base.
For a second I thought you were talking about LeBron. "Sounds right on" gave me the clue it wasn't him.
http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2016/12/us_coast_guard_search_of_lake.html#incart_2box
Beverage company president, his wife, 2 kids, and two friends
Thanks all. That makes sense.
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