Search Suspended For Missing Pilot

The Air Force and Civil Air Patrol are suspending the search for a Twin Cities pilot and his plane that went missing two weeks ago over northeastern Minnesota.

 

 

 

 

DULUTH, Minn. (AP) - The Air Force and Civil Air Patrol are suspending the search for a Twin Cities pilot and his plane that went missing two weeks ago over northeastern Minnesota.

Mike Bratlie of Lakeville left a South St. Paul airport in his Piper PA-31 Navajo on June 8th bound for Duluth. He made his last radar contact in the Silver Bay area, and since then search crews on the ground, from the air and on Lake Superior looked in vain for evidence of a crash.

Civil Air Patrol spokesman, Lieutenant Colonel Paul Hertel, says Saturday the search is ending after 13 days without success. He says searchers covered over 2,000 square miles and that likely crash areas were searched multiple times.

Anyone who thinks they found the plane is advised to call 911.

(KFGO file photo)

 

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