Search & Rescue: missing pilot

UPDATE: Aug. 20

Missing pilot found dead in aircraft submerged in lake in Kawartha Lakes region, OPP says

What a job these people do. Heroes doing search and rescue. There was no transponder in this home-built plane. 

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Many people are looking for this plane. Registration C-FOFZ, belonging to David Douglas. [Toronto Star article] 

Durham Regional Police

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OPP says he departed the small Oshawa airport at 8:30 a.m. on Friday in a single-seat, homebuilt blue and yellow aircraft with the letters “FOFZ” on the tail.

They spent 7 hours looking Saturday. 

 Look for the helpers. The Trenton Search and Rescue team are helping. The plane that searched Saturday has gone back to Ottawa on Sunday.  This is a plane that flew out from Barrie airport.

When military planes search, they change their call letters to RSCU. You can see how the signal disappears when they get to non-cell service. Kawartha Lakes is as the name implies. This is the Boreal Forest, swamps and small lakes, pockets of agriculture, as well. 

Another Hercules was searching on Sunday for hours.  

 

On Flight Radar, you can see the flight from the air. 

Monday, August 17 – a cloudy morning. 

After a cloudy morning, it cleared. I noticed a lot of Seneca planes, thought it looked like they were searching. Who knows? 

Wolfe Lake, a canoe camping area in QE II Provincial Park.

 UPDATE: Aug. 17

The Trent Joint Rescue Coordination Centre says the plane was found on Wolf Lake in Queen Elizabeth II Provincial Park in the Kawartha Lakes region. From Peterborough Scanner. Very remote. People have offered boats for OPP Rescue crews.

UPDATE: Aug. 18

The OPP have corrected the news bulletins. It says that debris was found, perhaps from this plane.

The Trent Joint Rescue Coordination Centre says the plane was found on Wolf Lake in Queen Elizabeth II Provincial Park in the Kawartha Lakes region. From Peterborough Scanner. Very remote. People have offered boats for OPP Rescue crews.

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We've watched the entire Mayday Disaster series. We know what can go wrong. The small ones don't have the equipment of the larger planes. I watch the radar as planes fly over us.