May 13, 2008: North Carolina CAP Aircrew Discovers Aircraft Wreckage

On this date, an aircrew from the North Carolina Wing of the Civil Air Patrol located the wreckage of a plane crash in western North Carolina.

An excerpt from a press release from the NCWG: 

RALEIGH, N.C. – The wreckage of a missing single-engine Piper PA-32-260 was located about 9:10 a.m. today near Cold Mountain in the Shining Rock Wilderness Area along the Haywood and Transylvania County lines in western North Carolina.

The aircraft had left Rutherford County Airport in North Carolina about 5 a.m. May 12 bound for North Little Rock Municipal Airport in Arkansas. After the aircraft was reported overdue, the U.S. Air Force Rescue Coordination Center notified the North Carolina Wing of the Civil Air Patrol to begin a search.

The search continued this morning with three CAP aircraft and the assistance of a North Carolina Highway Patrol helicopter, as well as four ground teams from the North and South Carolina wings of the Civil Air Patrol, members of the Cruso Fire Department and the Haywood County Rescue Squad.

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