CTWG: SARX EVAL Update #2

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Connecticut’s Civil Air Patrol responds to multiple incidents

November 7, 2009
(HARTFORD, CT) – Civil Air Patrol’s Connecticut Wing members launched multiple aircraft and ground teams to search for a missing Cessna 172 aircraft and a missing person in Enders State Park, Granby.

Currently CAP aircraft are searching the western part of Connecticut and north toward Albany, NY for the missing Cessna. Other aircraft have engaged the Enders Park search both to assist CAP ground crews and the Connecticut State Police. An additional aircraft has been tasked with obtaining medications that may be important to the missing person’s health.

Ground teams consisting of senior and cadet members of the Connecticut Wings 13 squadrons are on site at both locations and additional search teams are enroute.

Earlier this morning, the Air Force Rescue Coordination Center asked the CT Wing to search for a missing single engine, red Cessna 172, whose pilot and passenger departed Tweed New Haven Airport. The pilot had planned a stop over in Waterbury with a final destination of Albany NY. The aircraft did not land at Waterbury and never arrived in Albany.

Concurrently, Wing members launched both air and ground assets in support of a request from the Connecticut State Police. A women, #### ####, age 53 wearing a ski jacket and jeans and carrying a personal electronic locating transmitter was reported missing in Enders State Park, Granby.

Anyone with any knowledge of either the missing aircraft or the missing person described above is asked to call the Incident Center information line at (###) ###-####.

Additional updates throughout these missions will be posted on the Connecticut Wing Command’s Blog, www.AlwaysVigilant.blogspot.com.


THIS IS A SIMULATED TRAINING EXERCISE. THIS IS NOT A REAL EVENT