Plane missing since Sunday spotted from air in NW Montana; no word on survivors

Plane missing in Montana spotted from air

HELENA, Mont. — Montana officials say searchers have spotted what appears to be the wreckage of a plane missing since Sunday that was carrying four people on a sightseeing trip.

There was no immediate word on survivors.

Lake County sheriff’s spokeswoman Carey Cooley says a pilot with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection spotted the crash site Wednesday afternoon in rough terrain.

Cooley says the plane matches the description of the 1968 Piper Arrow missing since Sunday, but authorities have not been able to read the tail number.

Pilot Sonny Kless, friend Brian Williams and two newspaper reporters from the Daily Inter Lake of Kalispell, Melissa Weaver and Erika Hoefer, took off on a sightseeing trip Sunday afternoon and never returned.