WXOW News 19 La Crosse, WI – News, Weather and Sports |Search suspended for four missing in MI med plane crash
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LUDINGTON, Mich. (WXOW) -- The U.S. Coast Guard says all agencies have stopped searching for four people missing in Lake Michigan after a plane crash during a medical flight.
Petty Officer Brandon Blackwell of the Coast Guard's district headquarters in Cleveland tells The Associated Press the search was halted at 1:45 p.m.
He says it's unlikely anyone is still alive some 27 hours after the plane went down.
The pilot, 66-year-old Jerry Freed of Alma, was rescued shortly after the crash. Still missing are co-pilot Earl Davidson, Alma schools' superintendent Don Pavlik, his wife Irene, and Dr. James Hall.
The plane was in flight from Michigan to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota when it went down.
