**Corrected Information** Coast Guard continues search for downed aircraft in the Bahamas

DATE: December 25, 2009 08:59:03 EST

US COAST GUARD

News Release

Date:
Dec. 25, 2009

Contact:
Petty Officer 3rd Class Sabrina Elgammal
305-415-6683

**Corrected Information** Coast Guard continues search for downed aircraft in the Bahamas

MIAMI - Coast Guard crews continue searching Friday for two people after receiving a report of a downed aircraft approximately 10 miles northeast of Plana Cays, Bahamas, Thursday.

Missing are Travis Compton and Bancroft Nyack. The two men departed Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Thursday in a Piper PA-27 twin engine-aircraft and were reportedly en route to Grenada.

Watchstanders at the Seventh Coast Guard District Command Center in Miami received a call from an FAA controller at approximately 11:30 a.m. Thursday reporting loss of radar and radio contact with the Piper PA-27. A civilian aircraft pilot transiting the area around the same time contacted the FAA and reporteded hearing an aircraft's emergency distress call.

Coast Guard crews are searching the waters in the vicinity of the aircraft's last known position near Plana Cays.

Searching are:

HC-130 Hercules fixed-wing aircraft crew from Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater, Fla.
HU-25 Falcon jet crew from Coast Guard Air Station Miami
HH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew from Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater deployed to Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands, in support of Operation Bahamas Turks and Caicos

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