Rescuers search from Air and ground
Boisean One of Passengers on Missing Skydiving Plane
By J. Gelband, 10-08-07
Officials are looking for a missing plane with up to 10 passengers that departed from an airport in Boise suburb Star on Sunday evening.
A search for the plane began early Monday in the central Washington Cascades for the Cessna 208 Grand Caravan that was supposed to reach Shelton, Wash., but did not arrive as scheduled.
One of the ten people scheduled to be on the plane, returning from a skydiving trip with Skydive Snohomish, was former Boisean Michelle Barker, 22, a Centennial High School graduate.
According to the Idaho Statesman, Barker was part of a Snohomish-based skydiving club that was making a weekend trip of the sport.
The Associated Press reports that a hunter in the White Pass area informed police he saw a low-flying plane and heard a crash at 8 p.m. Sunday.
And because of that report and the time when the place disappeared off radar, an official at the Washington Department of Transportation, which is conducting the air search, said the searchers are focused on the area southwest of Rimrock Lake, about 30 miles west of Yakima. The Yakima County Search and Rescue is coordinating the ground search in the area.
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There are no survivors. Searchers found the remains of the last three of 10 people killed, officials said Tuesday.
Yakima County Sheriff Ken Irwin told http://www.CNN.com that evidence suggests the plane hit the ground at about 70 mph. "You can ascertain that it probably went in just about straight down; it wasn't at much of an angle," he said.