Small plane, 17-year-old pilot missing near Kamloops Searchers are in the air for a second day as they scour an area around Kamloops, B.C., looking for a small plane and its lone pilot. Rescue Co-ordination Centre spokesman Captain Pat McSorley says the primary search area remains focused just north of Kamloops Lake, only a few kilometres west of Kamloops. He says a signal from the Cessna 172 has not been picked up, which could mean the device has failed to function or it might have been destroyed if the single-engine craft crashed in a certain way. A 17-year-old flight school student is the lone person aboard. He was reported overdue at about noon Tuesday after failing to return to the Kamloops airport following a routine solo flight. Officials describe the teen as an experienced student, with more than 60 hours of flight time and all the necessary training required by Transport Canada.