Emergency Crews Searching Area For Missing Plane

Location: Bayside Drive (SR9) and North Little Creek Road (SR8), Little Creek, DE

Date of Occurrence: Sunday January 13, 2013 at approximately 7:10 p.m.

Resume:
Little Creek, DE- The Delaware State Police are assisting in the search of a missing single engine fixed wing plane near Little Creek.

Troopers along with officers from the Department of Natural Resources, Fish and Wildlife Division, and firefighters from Camden, Cheswold, Dover, Frederica, Hartly, Leipsic, and Little Creek are currently conducting grid searches in the area of Bayside Drive (SR9) and North Little Creek Road (SR8) for a piper plane that vanished off radar after an emergency call was placed to the control tower on Dover Air Force Base.

Details of this incident are in the early stages and updates will be released as information is received.