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1 body recovered as Coast Guard searches for downed airplane with 8 people

 

By Tina Burnside and Devon M. Sayers, CNN

Updated 0002 GMT (0802 HKT) February 15, 2022

(CNN)One body was recovered as the US Coast Guard searches for an airplane believed to have gone down about four miles east of Drum Inlet, on North Carolina's Outer Banks, with eight people on board, CNN affiliate WITN reported, citing a sheriff.

The search for the seven others who went missing Sunday evening continues, but "we have no indication that anyone survived the crash," Carteret County Sheriff Asa Buck told reporters at a press conference Monday, according to WITN.

Debris from a plane was found at that location near Drum Inlet on Monday morning, US Coast Guard Petty Officer Steve Lehmann told CNN earlier.

A Coast Guard command center received a report from an air traffic controller at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point that the plane, a Pilatus PC-12 single-engine aircraft, was seen "behaving erratically" before disappearing from the radar screen, the Coast Guard said in a news release.