PLANE CRASHES INTO LAKE MICHIGAN NEAR LUDINGTON, MICHIGAN
A medical transport plane en route to Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, crashed into Lake Michigan on Friday. The pilot has been rescued and authorities are searching for the other four passengers.
The plane, a Cessna 206, departed from Alma, Michigan, about 150 miles northwest of Detroit. The plane went down after 10 a.m. near Ludington, Michigan. Five people were aboard the plane; one person was rescued by a boater about two hours later.
Prior to the crash, the pilot reported a loss of power to an air traffic controller at the Minneapolis Center.
Those on board the plane included, Don Pavlik, the superintendent of the Alma Public Schools, was headed to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., for cancer treatment with his wife, Irene. Dr. James Hall and Earl David, who agreed to come with on the trip. A local businessman, Jerry Freed, owned the plane and offered the flight, a kind gesture he had done for others in the past.
