The Coast Guard received reports about 8 p.m. on Saturday that a Piper-like airplane went into the lake about eight miles south of Mandeville, and east of the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway. Coast Guard crews spent eight hours on the search, covering a 155-square-mile area.
Coast Guard helicopters and boats, along with civilian fishers and the St. Tammany Sheriff's Office marine units, searched the area Saturday night and Sunday morning.
Authorities received no information on an airplane that was overdue or otherwise missing, the Coast Guard said.
The search involved MH-65 Dolphin helicopters from Coast Guard Air Station New Orleans, which is inside the Naval Air Station-Joint Reserve Base in Belle Chasse, and its Station New Orleans, on the lake's south shore in Bucktown.
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The Coast Guard received reports about 8 p.m. on Saturday that a Piper-like airplane went into the lake about eight miles south of Mandeville, and east of the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway. Coast Guard crews spent eight hours on the search, covering a 155-square-mile area.
The Coast Guard is continuing its investigation Sunday morning of a report of a small airplane crashing in Lake Pontchartrain.
Despite a search by helicopter and boat, the Coast Guard and civilian fishing boat crews spotted no sign of the airplane, Petty Officer 3rd Class Jonathan Lally said Sunday.
The search area focused on an area between four miles and eight miles south of Mandeville and east of the Causeway, Lally said.
The Coast Guard's Sector New Orleans office in Algiers received a call about 8 p.m. on Saturday that an airplane, likened to a Piper aircraft, was seen going down.
Authorities still have received no reports that an airplane is missing, Lally said.
The Coast Guard's air and boat crews and civilian fishers have found no evidence of a crash.
"The Coast Guard takes any maritime incident seriously," Lally said, "so we're going to thoroughly saturate the area."
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Plane reported crashed in Lake Pontchartrain, Coast Guard says
The U.S. Coast Guard deployed a helicopter and boat crews Saturday night to investigate reports of a small plane crashing in Lake Pontchartrain.
The agency said it received two reports of a Piper-type plane down at about 8 p.m. but had not confirmed them.
By 11:30 p.m., search crews found no evidence of any wreckage. And boats in the area did not report hearing or seeing a plane go down, according to the Coast Guard.
Crews continued to search an area four to eight miles south of Mandeville, east of the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway.
Piper Aircraft Inc. makes four- and six-seat airplanes.
The reports came from a group of women who called from a home near the lake and said they had heard a loud splash, and from a driver on the Causeway, a Coast Guard officer said.
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The Coast Guard asks that anyone with information about the incident call the Sector New Orleans office at (504) 365-2209.
The crew aboard a Coast Guard MH-65 Dolphin, like the one pictured, is investigating a report of a small airplane crashing in Lake Pontchartrain about eight miles south of Mandeville Saturday night.
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