May 18, 1990: Virginia CAP Locates Site of Six Fatality Plane Crash

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On this date in 1990, the Virigina Civil Air Patrol assisted in locating a missing light plane that had been missing after taking off from North Carolina.  All six souls on board died in the crash.

An excerpt from the Richmond Times-Dispatch:

The bodies of the Washington area men, who left North Carolina in a Cessna 210 enroute to Winchester last Thursday, were found by a ground search team amid plane debris about two miles south of the community of Shady Grove Corner.

A 10-member Appalachian Search and Rescue Conference team had been combing the heavily wooded terrain since early yesterday when [Doug DeBoer]'s brother discovered plane debris about two miles off state Route 612. The name of DeBoer's brother was unavailable.

The search drew scores of personnel and volunteers from the Civil Air Patrol, Virginia National Guard, personnel from the Coast Guard and Quantico Marine Corps Base, as well the state police and the emergency services department. The Appalachian search conference, whose team discovered the bodies, is a Charlottesville-based group of volunteers trained in search and rescue techniques.

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