DURANT, OK -- Emergency
crews in Bryan County prepared for the worst Friday morning, as they
called all hands on deck to search for a missing plane.
But it turns out it was all a mix-up.
The
Federal Aviation Administration called Bryan County emergency services
around 9:30 a.m. asking for help after they lost contact with a plane.
But that plane didn't actually exist.
A
Cessna 152 student plane with U.S. Aviation out of North Texas Regional
Airport left for a training mission Friday morning. But a paperwork
error listed the wrong tail number in the flight plan.
The error caused the Fort Worth Traffic Control Center to issue an alert for a missing plane.
Officials cleared up the error and called off search crews just after 11 a.m.
But emergency crews spent almost two hours this morning scouring a 50 mile radius.
"And
we were pretty much traveling all the roads to see if there were some
sort of identification that a plane may have gone down in that area,"
said OHP Trooper B.J. Keeling.
The real plane landed safe and sound at the North Texas Regional Airport late Friday morning.
Source: http://www.kxii.com
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