The search and rescue operation is ongoing, the Coast Guard said.
A search is ongoing after a small plane went down over Lake Pontchartrain in New Orleans during a training flight, according to the owner of the Mississippi-based flight school.The crash occurred Monday evening, authorities said.
The United States Coast Guard said it was notified of a Cessna aircraft that had lost communications with air traffic control approximately 4 miles north of Lakefront Airport in New Orleans.Radar lost contact with the Cessna 172N at approximately 6:23 p.m. on Monday, nearly 40 minutes after it had departed Gulfport, Mississippi, and there was no further contact, according to Mike Carastro, owner and chief flight instructor for the flight school, Apollo Flight Training.@USCGHeartland/X The Coast Guard said a helicopter deployed in the search "spotted water discoloration" on Lake Pontchartrain on Monday evening. Several hours later, the Louisiana Department Wildlife and Fisheries "discovered what appears to be debris from a small plane such as a seat cushion," the Coast Guard said. The search resumed the following day, with the search and rescue operation ongoing, a spokesperson for the Coast Guard Sector New Orleans said Tuesday evening.Father and daughter killed in plane crash carrying hurricane relief supplies to Jamaica The instrument instructor and student were on a training flight from Gulfport to New Orleans to do practice approaches at the time of the crash, according to Carastro. Carastro described the instructor as "highly qualified," and said she was about 200 hours short of meeting the requirements to work as an airline pilot, "which was her ultimate goal."The National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration are the lead investigative agencies for the plane crash, Louisiana authorities said.
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