Searchers combing Cascade mountains for missing plane

Searchers are flying over the Cascade mountains looking
for
a plane
that might have gone down on a trip from Tonasket to
Sequim.

The Washington State Department of Transportation
immediately launched a search after the pilot, flying a
homemade plane, failed to show up in Sequim to pick up a
family member early Monday.

“They started on the westside and they moved east flying
in
the route that a person flying that route would typically
take,” says WSDOT spokeswoman Alice Fiman.

She says visibility is much better for search crews
Tuesday,
but searchers still haven’t picked up an emergency beacon.

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