Small Plane Wreckage Found In California After Plane Reported Missing

DUNSMUIR (AP) – A wreckage recovered connected a ridge successful acold Northern California connected Friday is that of a tiny level that requested an exigency landing but ne'er arrived astatine its expected destination, authorities said.

Someone spotted the achromatic Cessna 150 adjacent Dunsmuir, astir 45 miles northbound of Redding, and was capable to corroborate it was the missing level aft seeing its process number, Siskiyou County Sheriff’s spokeswoman Kelly Giordano said.

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The aviator has not been located, the Siskiyou Daily News reported.

William Bushling was believed to beryllium the lone idiosyncratic connected committee the level that had departed from Ashland, Oregon connected Wednesday and was apt headed to his hometown of Orland, astir 100 miles northbound of Sacramento.

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The Trinity County Sheriff’s bureau successful northwestern California received a petition for an exigency landing from him Wednesday night, but the level ne'er arrived.

The past ping from Bushling’s compartment telephone was adjacent Dunsmuir, authorities said.

The National Transportation Safety Board said it is investigating the origin of the crash.

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