Wreckage of Missing Plane, Pilot’s Body Found
Posted/updated on: August 25, 2010 at 2:47 am
EL DORADO, Ark. (AP/Staff) – The search for a missing airplane has ended with the aircraft’s wreckage found in Louisiana. Northeast Texas had been part of the search area for the RV-7A which was heading from Norwalk, Ohio to Georgetown, Texas when it disappeared. The wreckage and the body of the missing pilot was found yesterday near El Dorado, Arkansas.
The Civil Air Patrol says the wreckage of the plane was found at about 2:00 yesterday afternoon by searchers who spotted it from the air. FAA spokesman Lynn Lunsford says the plane was found in a dense pocket of trees about 500 yards from the El Dorado airport. Lunsford did not identify the pilot.
The Civil Air Patrol has identified him as Charles Miller, of Georgetown, a member of CAP’s Texas Wing. He was not flying on a CAP mission when the plane went down. According to the missing man’s wife, Susan, Miller had flown himself to Ohio on August 12 to attend a school reunion and visit family. He was returning home when the crash occurred.
