June 17, 2008: Hawaiian CAP Assists in Search for Missing Tour Plane

On this date in 2008, the Hawaiian Civil Air Patrol aircraft were assisting in the search of a Cessna 172 tour plane.

An excerpt from the Honolulu Star-Bulletin:

A U.S. Coast Guard C-130 plane continued searching through the night and into this morning for a missing single-engine tour plane that disappeared yesterday afternoon somewhere over or near the Big Island with a pilot and two passengers from Japan on board.

Five aircraft from the Coast Guard, Hawaii County, and Civil Air Patrol were searching along the southern shores and inland, county Civil Defense director Quince Mento said.

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