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A search was under way today for a UND airplane carrying two people that disappeared on a routine flight from St. Paul to Grand Forks.
UND spokesman Peter Johnson said the Piper Seminole left St. Paul shortly before 9:30 p.m. Tuesday.
UND identified the two people in the plane as Annette Klosterman, a UND flight instructor from Seattle, and Adam Ostapenko, an aviation student from Duluth, Minn. The Piper company Web site, www.newpiper.com, describes the Seminole trainer as a twin-engine aircraft that seats four people.
Air traffic officials in Minneapolis last spoke to Klosterman and Ostapenko in a routine conversation at 10:15 p.m., in the St. Cloud area, UND said in a statement.
The plane was due to arrive in Grand Forks at 11:45 p.m. Tuesday, FAA spokeswoman Elizabeth Isham Cory said. The FAA sent out a notice at 1:46 a.m. today, alerting airports and law enforcement officials along the flight path, when the pilot did not close out the flight plan filed with the agency before takeoff, she said. "What (the notice) does is alert airports and sheriffs and local law enforcement on the path ... and asked them to start looking," Isham Cory said.
A ground search of all airports from St. Cloud to Grand Forks was conducted early today, UND said, and the Civil Air Patrol sent five aircraft at daybreak to continue the search.
Capt. Al Pabon said late this morning that three of the planes were still searching, and more might be sent up in the afternoon. "It's possible the aircraft could have landed at another airport," he said. "There might have been an emergency. It could have gone down somewhere in between those two locations, so we're trying to systematically search out that area. It's a large area and will take time."
It has been less than a year since two UND students were killed when a single-engine Cessna left the Crookston, Minn., airport and crashed into a farm field.
Pilot Jacob Rueth, 18, of Orland Park, Ill., and passenger Jacob Allen Sundblad, 19, of Annandale, Minn., were killed in the December 2006 crash.
Civil Air Patrol is the civilian auxiliary of the U.S. Air Force and is an all-volunteer, non-profit organization. It conducts search missions for missing aircraft, homeland security missions, provides emergency disaster relief in cooperation with other relief organizations, and fosters civil aviation in local communities through adult and youth aerospace education programs.
There are more than 1200 CAP members in Minnesota.
UND spokesman Peter Johnson said the Piper Seminole left St. Paul shortly before 9:30 p.m. Tuesday.
UND identified the two people in the plane as Annette Klosterman, a UND flight instructor from Seattle, and Adam Ostapenko, an aviation student from Duluth, Minn. The Piper company Web site, www.newpiper.com, describes the Seminole trainer as a twin-engine aircraft that seats four people.
Air traffic officials in Minneapolis last spoke to Klosterman and Ostapenko in a routine conversation at 10:15 p.m., in the St. Cloud area, UND said in a statement.
The plane was due to arrive in Grand Forks at 11:45 p.m. Tuesday, FAA spokeswoman Elizabeth Isham Cory said. The FAA sent out a notice at 1:46 a.m. today, alerting airports and law enforcement officials along the flight path, when the pilot did not close out the flight plan filed with the agency before takeoff, she said. "What (the notice) does is alert airports and sheriffs and local law enforcement on the path ... and asked them to start looking," Isham Cory said.
A ground search of all airports from St. Cloud to Grand Forks was conducted early today, UND said, and the Civil Air Patrol sent five aircraft at daybreak to continue the search.
Capt. Al Pabon said late this morning that three of the planes were still searching, and more might be sent up in the afternoon. "It's possible the aircraft could have landed at another airport," he said. "There might have been an emergency. It could have gone down somewhere in between those two locations, so we're trying to systematically search out that area. It's a large area and will take time."
It has been less than a year since two UND students were killed when a single-engine Cessna left the Crookston, Minn., airport and crashed into a farm field.
Pilot Jacob Rueth, 18, of Orland Park, Ill., and passenger Jacob Allen Sundblad, 19, of Annandale, Minn., were killed in the December 2006 crash.
Civil Air Patrol is the civilian auxiliary of the U.S. Air Force and is an all-volunteer, non-profit organization. It conducts search missions for missing aircraft, homeland security missions, provides emergency disaster relief in cooperation with other relief organizations, and fosters civil aviation in local communities through adult and youth aerospace education programs.
There are more than 1200 CAP members in Minnesota.
