Crews Continue Search for Missing Pilot
Posted/updated on: February 11, 2012 at 4:34 pm
LAKE PALESTINE -— Crews continue to search for a missing pilot after his plane landed in Lake Palestine. Crews removed the plane from the water Friday. They suspended the search for 85-year-old Fred Scholz overnight but got back to work Saturday morning. Lt. Col. Rick Woolfolk with the Civil Air Patrol says searchers in a boat located the plane around 5:00 Thursday morning. Friends of Scholz have told KETK he is from Iowa, with a part time residence in the Frankston area.
Woolfolk says sonar was used to find the submerged plane, in about 20 feet of water. Divers were sent to the scene. Woolfolk says the pilot was alone Wednesday afternoon when he flew from Aero Estates, in the Jacksonville area, to Frankston to refuel and then head home. A relative Wednesday night reported the plane was overdue.
