ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) - A tour helicopter aiding in the search
for an airplane missing on a flight from Georgia has discovered
wreckage on a North Carolina mountainside.
The North Carolina Wing of the Civil Air Patrol said Sunday that
friends of the missing pilot, identified as Bill Allison, spotted
the wreckage on a peak in Clay County near the Georgia border. They
confirmed that the wreckage was that of the missing plane.
CAP spokesman Don Penven said Clay County emergency management
personnel were contacted and a ground team was dispatched to the
remote crash site, which took several hours to reach.
The Federal Aviation Administration said the Cessna left
Cleveland, Ga., for the Andrews-Murphy Airport in western North
Carolina about 10 a.m. Friday. Allison's wife reported him missing.
(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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