PORT ANGELES – The Coast Guard has called off the search for a missing plane that reportedly crashed near Port Angeles.
Late yesterday afternoon, the search was suspended for the pilot of a small plane that sent a mayday call Late Tuesday afternoon.
The man took off mid-day Tuesday in his Cessna 170A from Ketchikan, Alaska, with the intended destination of Port Angeles.
Multiple air and water resources from the US and Canada searched an area mostly west and northwest of Port Angeles.
Before the single-engine airplane went down, the pilot described land formations he could see and ships that were in the area. The Coast Guard built a search area based upon that information. Most of the area covered consisted of the waters north and northwest of Port Angeles, up to the international boundary line.
Rescue crews completed 22 different search patterns and covered 1,170 square miles over the 23 hours of searching.