press release from the search team - 11/01 5pm CDT
From: Fremont County Sheriff's Office
Monday, November 1, 2010
Contact: NEW: Ernie Over, Search Public Information Officer (307) 851-0794
MISSING PLANE SEARCH UPDATE at 4:00 PM MT
(Lander, WY) – Blessed with clear skies and warmer weather, ground and air search teams are putting in a full day of searching this afternoon for a missing aircraft in the rugged Wind River Range of northwest Wyoming. The missing craft disappeared from radar one week ago.
Through mid-day Monday, no physical trace of the aircraft has been found.
Searchers today concentrated their efforts in what was termed as the “area of highest probability,” that area around the aircraft’s last known radar position.
“We have two teams consisting of the ‘best of the best” technical mountaineers out there today searching some of the toughest terrain,” said Operations Chief Jason Aanestad. “We will keep them there as long as the helicopter crews allow us too.”
Aanestad also reported that because of the clear weather today, air units are able to put in additional flight hours. Through Saturday, air teams had logged over 260 hours in the search.
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