Coast Guard searches
for missing plane

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Associated Press

The Coast Guard searched yesterday for a small airplane that disappeared Sunday after taking off from Honolulu Airport.

Harrison Roth, 51, of Tinian, in the Northern Mariana Islands, was piloting a fixed-wing Piper Seneca bound to arrive Sunday evening in Majuro, in the Marshall Islands, the Coast Guard said.

But officials said Roth did not arrive as scheduled and had not been in contact with another aircraft since Sunday afternoon.

The search for the plane and its pilot began yesterday morning. Officials said two C-130 Hercules long-range aircraft would search Roth's intended flight path.

The missing aircraft was equipped with a life raft, flares, a global positioning system and two emergency beacons, Coast Guard officials said.

The Marshall Islands are about 2,500 miles southwest of Hawaii.