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After six days of scouring a remote section of the northern Sierra Nevada, authorities announced Monday they had suspended their search for a missing Santa Rosa couple presumed to have crashed while flying from Truckee to Petaluma.
Brenda and Mark Richard flew out of the more than mile-high Truckee Tahoe Airport April 17 headed for Petaluma. At the time of their takeoff around 4 p.m., the temperature was 41 degrees with overcast skies and wind gusts exceeding 20 mph. Pilots departing the Tahoe-Truckee Airport must navigate 8,000- to 9,000-foot peaks shortly after takeoff.
Authorities believe the white-and-blue single-engine Socata TB-20 Trinidad crashed in the snow somewhere in a 400-square-mile stretch of backcountry in Sierra County, 18 miles northwest of Truckee. The rough location of the plane was determined by radar and cellphone data.
Civil Air Patrol volunteers from California and Nevada flew more than 60 hours over the area while others pored over more than 8,000 aerial digital images, taken by wing-mounted cameras.
http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/6922399-181/air-search-suspended-for-missing?artslide=0
Brenda and Mark Richard flew out of the more than mile-high Truckee Tahoe Airport April 17 headed for Petaluma. At the time of their takeoff around 4 p.m., the temperature was 41 degrees with overcast skies and wind gusts exceeding 20 mph. Pilots departing the Tahoe-Truckee Airport must navigate 8,000- to 9,000-foot peaks shortly after takeoff.
Authorities believe the white-and-blue single-engine Socata TB-20 Trinidad crashed in the snow somewhere in a 400-square-mile stretch of backcountry in Sierra County, 18 miles northwest of Truckee. The rough location of the plane was determined by radar and cellphone data.
Civil Air Patrol volunteers from California and Nevada flew more than 60 hours over the area while others pored over more than 8,000 aerial digital images, taken by wing-mounted cameras.
http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/6922399-181/air-search-suspended-for-missing?artslide=0
