A search is scheduled to resume Monday morning for a plane that may have crashed on the Cherokee Indian Reservation in western North Carolina.
Rangers received a call from a couple on the Blue Ridge Parkway Sunday evening at 6:45pm who said they saw a small plane flying low and believed it ran into a mountain.
The couple believed they saw black smoke according to Ray Stamper, Public Information Officer for the Public Safety Division of the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians.
The North Carolina Park Service contacted rescue teams in Swain and Jackson counties before determinging – using GPS – that the possible crash location was on the reservation.
Rescue crews searched using ATVs and a helicopter from Mission Hospital in Asheville for a plane, but called off the search at 5:40am Monday. The search was scheduled to resume by 8:00am.
Stamper says the search will resume before 8:00am Monday in an area where the terrain is described as rugged.
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