Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Cessna 182R Crash in Wyoming

A Civil Air Patrol Cessna 182R being used to search for a missing Wyoming teenager crashed and burned in the Bighorn National Forest, killing all three people on board. A spokesman with the Federal Aviation Administration, says the plane went down Monday evening and was destroyed by fire. The pilot of the plane last made radio contact with another pilot in the area at about 4 p.m. Monday. The Civil Air Patrol is a nonprofit U.S. Air Force auxiliary organization that performs 95 percent of the nation's inland search and rescue operations

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