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Coast Guard searching for 6 people after plane goes missing over Lake Erie
Canadian C-130 aircraft assisting in search for Cessna Citation en route from Cleveland to Columbus
Last Updated: Dec 30, 2016 12:25
The U.S. Coast Guard and Canadian search and rescue crews remain hopeful as they scour Lake Erie for survivors after a plane carrying six people disappeared Thursday night.
According to the coast guard, three adults and three children were aboard a Cessna Citation 525 that took off from Burke Lakefront Airport in Cleveland, Ohio, and then disappeared from radar around 11:30 p.m.
The coast guard said the cause of the disappearance is unknown.
During a news conference, Capt. Michael Mullen said crews are still in search-and-rescue mode and have "faint hints" from an emergency locating transmitter that could help them find the plane.
"I truly believe we're going to find something," he said. "We'll be very hopeful up until the point where we have to turn the search off and switch over to assisting with recovery."
Mullen said authorities are still hopeful there will be survivors, but said whether or not a person could withstand the lake's frigid waters all comes down to a person's "will to survive."