New search turns up no sign of missing pilot, plane
Civil Air Patrol crews conducting a training exercise on eight planes in the Northland over the weekend did not turn up any signs of a plane and pilot that went missing June 8 on a flight from South St. Paul to Duluth, the Duluth News Tribune reports.
The Air Force and Civil Air Patrol called off a search after two weeks last summer, KSTP reported.
Pilot Mike Bratlie of Lakeville left a South St. Paul airport in his Piper PA-31 Navajo and made his last radar contact in the Silver Bay area.
A former student pilot produced this slideshow as a tribute to the former Navy aviator and Northwest pilot.