Search for missing plane continues in Mississippi Sound
Published 10:30 am Wednesday, October 28, 2015
- A piece of debris which authorities believe is from a missing plane sits on the shore near Belle Fontaine Beach in Jackson County, Miss., on Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2015. The plane left the airport in Gulfport, Miss., on Monday and was reported missing later that night when it did not arrive in South Caroline as scheduled. Authorities say they're still searching for three men who were aboard the single-engine plane. (John Ftizhugh/Sun Herald via AP)
PASCAGOULA, Miss. (AP) — The Coast Guard says the search continues Wednesday for three men aboard a single-engine plane that went missing in the Mississippi Sound shortly after takeoff from Gulfport.
The plane went missing Monday afternoon. Debris, including a piece with part of the plane’s registration number, was found Tuesday.
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Bob Roy, president of Georgia-based contractor RMR Mechanical, tells The Sun Herald (http://bit.ly/1P4osdr) that two of the three onboard work for the company: manager Dexter Brewer and vice president and co-owner Gerald Miletello.
Roy says Brewer was headed to a customer meeting in South Carolina. Roy says the third person was the pilot. Officials haven’t released names.
Brewer’s wife, Tina Cook, tells the newspaper she’s hopeful her husband’s alive. She says that before he boarded, he told her they’d probably fly along the coast to avoid rough weather.
