Bluefield Daily Telegraph, Bluefield, WV

December 1, 2009

AFTERNOON UPDATE: Searchers in W.Va. find dead pilot, missing plane


MORGANTOWN (AP) — Civil Air Patrol teams on Tuesday found a small plane that vanished more than a week ago during a flight from Texas to Virginia, and the pilot’s body was amid the wreckage about five miles north of a navigational transmitter in Rainelle.

Three reconnaissance planes had searched the mountainous, densely wooded area near Quinwood and Rainelle in Greenbrier County, along West Virginia’s southeastern border, said Maj. Jeffery Schrock, a spokesman for the air patrol.

For more on this story, see Wednesday's edition of the Daily Telegraph