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Search Called Off For Missing Plane
August 3, 2008
Three days after an emergency “Mayday” was heard from an aircraft somewhere in the Mobile/Pensacola area, the Civil Air Patrol called off their search on Saturday.
The “Mayday” and emergency locator beacon was hear by multiple aircraft pilots in the area about 3:47 Wednesday afternoon. More than 50 Civil Air Patrol volunteers had put over 450 man hours in the search by early Friday, but nothing had been found.
“No evidence of a specific aircraft in distress has been found and all aircraft with registration numbers that matched the initial distress call have been contacted or accounted for,” according to a civil air patrol press release.
The Alabama Wing of the Civil Air Patrol have focused their efforts on Baldwin County. They say the plane could have gone down anywhere in the area.Nothing has been heard since on radio frequency that is used for emergency location transponders, nor has there been any report of a missing aircraft of pilot.
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