CLEVELAND (AP) — U.S. Coast Guard crews were searching Lake Erie on Friday for a plane that disappeared overnight shortly after takeoff from a small Cleveland airport along the shore.
The Columbus-bound Cessna Citation 525 departed Burke Lakefront Airport late Thursday night with three children and three adults aboard and vanished from radar about 2 miles over the lake. Why remains unclear.
Searchers had found no sign of any debris or the people aboard the plane as of Friday morning, the agency said. Coast Guard official James Cox in Buffalo, New York, also said no emergency beacon had been detected.
Weather prevented a boat search overnight, but a U.S. Coast guard helicopter and a Canadian air crew in a plane were being used. A ship also was headed from Detroit to help with the search.
The waters in the search area are about 50 feet deep, the Coast Guard said.
The plane was headed to Ohio State University Airport northwest of downtown Columbus. Cox said the plane is kept at a hangar at the airfield, but the six people aboard the aircraft aren’t affiliated with OSU. Their names weren’t released, pending notification of their families.
Petty Officer Joel Altman, a public affairs officer in Cleveland with the Ninth Coast Guard District, said he couldn’t immediately confirm whether the passengers were related or provide the ages of the children.
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Unless Trump and Pence were on the plane, I can’t believe TPM is filing space with this totally non-political story.
Looks like they’re suspending the search, presumed dead. Odd that they haven’t found anything.
I’m not saying the aliens took them… but I’m not NOT saying it, either.
It’s clear to me that they decided to end their lives due to their despair and lack of hope after the results of the presidential election. Hey, Chiselin’ Trump, you can’t just take credit for all of the good things that happen. You’ve also got to take the blame for the bad things.
That is a pretty stupid comment.