Coast Guard: Medical plane carrying 5 en route to Minnesota down in Lake Michigan; 1 rescued

Coast Guard rescues 1 from downed plane carrying 5

LUDINGTON, Mich. — The U.S. Coast Guard says a medical transport plane carrying five crashed in Lake Michigan and one person has been rescued.

Petty Officer Nathaniel Parks says the plane went down shortly after 10 a.m. Friday a few miles off the shore of Ludington, Mich. A passenger was rescued shortly after noon.

Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Elizabeth Isham Cory says the Cessna 206 left Alma, Mich., about 150 miles northwest of Detroit, on Friday morning en route to Rochester, Minn.