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Rescuers find plane's wreckage in SoCal mountain pass
By: Associated Press - | ∞
BANNING, Calif. -- A search party headed to a rugged mountain pass Sunday to pick through what may be the debris of a small plane that vanished a week earlier with four people aboard, authorities said.
The wreckage was discovered Saturday near the Banning Pass, about 90 miles east of Los Angeles.
The crash site was 1.5-miles northwest of the last known position of a six-seat Cessna that left an Inland Empire airport last weekend, said Civil Air Patrol Captain Andrea Binder. Authorities would not confirm Sunday morning that the wreckage was that of the missing Cessna.
Authorities didn't begin their search for the plane until the daughter of 79-year-old passenger Alvin Baker reported him missing on Wednesday.
Also on the plane were its owners, 75-year-old Michael Bybyk and 70-year-old Joyce Bybyk of Fullerton, as well as 68-year-old Gail Pugel of Ontario.
The rescue crew was made up of members from the Riverside County Sheriff's Department, Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board, sheriff's Deputy Craig Roberts said.
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