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DATE: WEDNESDAY, May 16, 1990                   TAG: 9005160489
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B3   EDITION: BEDFORD/FRANKLIN 
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DATELINE: FRONT ROYAL                                LENGTH: Short

MISSING PLANE SEARCH RECEIVES WEAK SIGNAL

The search for a downed aircraft carrying six Washington-area men expanded to the Blue Ridge Mountains on Tuesday because a lookout pilot heard a weak emergency distress signal.

Eight planes began scanning the east ridge between Front Royal and Luray to try to pinpoint the origin of the signal, Lt. Mary Kay Baun of the Civil Air Patrol said.

The maroon-and-white Cessna 210 left Manteo, N.C., at 1:30 a.m. Thursday headed for Manassas, with an interim stop at Winchester to drop off a passenger.

The pilot and five passengers had been on a fishing outing to North Carolina's Outer Banks. The Civil Air Patrol has not confirmed the identities of the six men at the request of the family members.

- Associated Press 


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