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Body of Missing Pilot Andrew Lindberg Found
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Published : Tuesday, 17 Nov 2009, 10:25 PM CST
MAHNOMEN, Minn. – The body of missing pilot Andrew Lindberg has been found in the wreckage of his small plane that crashed near Mahnomen, Minnesota.
Searchers found the crashed plane in a wooded area Wednesday. County attorney and spokeswoman Jeanine Brand said Lindberg’s body was found inside. Lindberg’s family was at the scene of the wreckage Wednesday.
On Friday around 5 p.m., Lindberg took off from the Air Lake Airport in Lakeville. He was headed to Hallock to go hunting with his father. Lindberg’s wife told FOX 9 her husband of six weeks sent her a text around 6:30 p.m. as he flew over Staples.
Lindberg did not file a flight plan. His family alerted authorities the plane was missing just before 11 p.m. Friday night.
More 100 Civil Air Patrol volunteers searched by ground and by air during the past several days.
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Airplane wreckage found near Mahnomen | INFORUM | Fargo, ND
Posted by: | CommentsMAHNOMEN, Minn. – A private pilot flying over Mahnomen County spotted what appeared to be the wreckage of a plane late Tuesday afternoon in a remote wooded area 21 miles east of the city of Mahnomen, according to Sheriff Doug Krier.
The pilot saw the tail fin of a plane sticking up out of a brushy, wooded site about 4:30 p.m. and landed in Mahnomen to tell authorities, Krier said. A deputy went up with the pilot to survey the scene and confirmed that it appeared to be a wrecked aircraft, though he could not tell what kind of aircraft.
The pilot who spotted the apparent wreckage was not part of the 18-aircraft Civil Air Patrol search involving 80 trained volunteers that flew over nine counties Tuesday, including Mahnomen. The CAP effort also involved five ground crews that check out leads from aircraft crews.
Since Saturday morning, the state’s CAP had mounted its largest air search in recent memory for Andrew Lindberg, 32, formerly of Hallock, Minn.
He was flying Friday night from Lakeville, Minn., to Hallock to go deer hunting with his father, Bill, and others. The last contact he made was a text message from his cell phone to his father, who was waiting at the Hallock airport, saying he was over Staples, Minn., about 6:30 p.m.
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