Still No Sign of Missing Airplane in Southeast Alabama
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Posted by: Matt Boster
Date: Sep 19 2014 6:50 AM
According to report from WSFA - The search for two people and their small airplane in southeast Alabama will continued Friday, the third day of searching following the plane's disappearance in what is believed to have been a crash somewhere near Henry County.
For much of the day Thursday, helicopters refueled one-by-one at the command post located at the Abbeville Municipal Airport. They then took back off in search of the missing green, 2-seater Piper Cub and its passengers.
Henry County Sheriff Will Maddox says the plane took off from the Headland Airport sometime between 9 and 10:15 a.m. Tuesday. The plane, carrying 2-hours worth of fuel, never reached its destination in Eufaula.
Thursday it was confirmed an image located with sonar in Lake Eufaula was found not to be the aircraft. This news brought a sigh of relief to the family and friends.
"This gives them a little spur of hope that this was not the plane that was submerged in the water so, we are still looking in the water we are still trying to everything we know to try to find this airplane," Maddox said.
Maddox continues to withhold the names of the two people who were onboard the plane but we've learned the two are both retired Army pilots. One is a Dothan resident while the other is from New Brockton.
"They were two very experienced season aviators in both rotary wing and fixed wing, several thousands of hours between the two of them, they were just out on a pleasure flight," said Doug Brown, a friend of the missing passengers.
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