 The Coast Guard has suspended its search for a missing plane with six people aboard that has been out of contact since Thursday evening, shortly after takeoff from Cleveland's Burke Lakefront Airport. Representatives from the City of Cleveland and the Coast Guard will hold a joint press conference on Saturday morning at 10:00 a.m. to discuss recovery efforts. It included Coast Guard crews aboard an MH-65 Dolphin helicopter, an HC-130 aircraft and the Coast Guard Cutter Bristol Bay, as well as an aircrew aboard a Royal Canadian Air Force CC-130 from the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre in Trenton, Ontario. Their names weren't released, pending notification of their families. The executive's father, John W. Fleming, told the Columbus Dispatch that his son, John T. Fleming, was at the controls of the Cessna that went missing Thursday night after the pilot, his family and friends attended a Cleveland Cavaliers basketball game. According to the FAA, the aircraft's intended destination was The Ohio State University in Columbus, but the small plane disappeared shortly after takeoff about two miles offshore over Lake Erie and was not visible on radar. The plane was registered to a beverage company executive and is based at Ohio State University Airport, the airport's director told CNN Friday. Coast Guard Cutter Bristol Bay also arrived to increase the search platform on the water.. Searchers had found no sign of any debris or the people aboard the plane as of Friday morning, the agency said.
– The Coast Guard has found no sign of debris while searching Lake Erie for a small plane carrying three adults and three children that took off from Cleveland, then vanished Thursday night, reports the AP. All passengers attended a Cleveland Cavaliers game before boarding the twin-engine Cessna Citation 525 and departing Burke Lakefront Airport at 10:50pm bound for Ohio State University Airport in Columbus, where the plane is normally housed in a hangar, per CNN and WKYC. However, it dropped from radar about two miles over Lake Erie. An air search, made difficult by 12- to 15-foot waves, turned up no sign of the plane overnight.