Search for missing plane in Lake Erie
US Coast Guard crews have been searching Lake Erie for a plane that went missing overnight shortly after takeoff from a small Cleveland airport.
The Columbus-bound Cessna Citation 525 departed Burke Lakefront Airport late on Thursday night with six people aboard and disappeared from radar about 3km over the lake.
Searchers had found no sign of any debris or the people aboard the plane as of Friday morning, the agency said.
Coast Guard official James Cox in Buffalo, New York, also said no emergency beacon had been detected.
Weather prevented a boat search overnight, but a US Coast guard helicopter and a Canadian air crew in a plane were being used. A ship also was headed from Detroit to help with the search.
The plane was headed to Ohio State University Airport northwest of Columbus but Cox said the people aboard were not affiliated with OSU.
