17 February 2009

CAP: Puerto Rico Wing assists in search for downed plane

PUERTO RICO -- Members of the Puerto Rico Wing are assisting the U.S. Coast Guard and the Puerto Rico State Emergency Management Agency in the search for a Cessna 206 reported missing early Feb. 9.

Local news sources have quoted witnesses who reported hearing something similar to an explosion, then seeing a plane going down north of the Quebrada Mala sector in the municipality of Quebradillas the previous evening.

The aircraft was traveling from La Romana, Dominican Republic, to San Juan International Airport with six people onboard. Oil and plane parts have been sighted, but so far no survivors have been spotted. An unidentified body was washed ashore.

Fifteen members of the Puerto Rico Wing continue to work along with the Coast Guard, the lead agency, and state agencies in the search effort. Lt. Col. Reynaldo Negron, the wing’s emergency services officer and commander of the Muniz Air National Guard Base Cadet Squadron, is serving as incident commander.
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