ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Tuesday, January 9, 1996 TAG: 9601110050
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-3 EDITION: METRO
DATELINE: WINAMAC, IND.
SOURCE: Associated Press
The wife of an Indiana man whose single-engine plane vanished from radar screens Saturday over Virginia's Chesapeake Bay says her husband had flown over the area many times before.
Preston Henry, an attorney, left Gaithersburg, Md., Saturday night en route to Fayetteville, N.C. The plane disappeared from radar screens about 7:45 p.m. Saturday, his wife said.
``He did his clerking in Washington, D.C., and he knows this area very well,'' Laurie Henry sad. ``We're praying.''
She said her husband, a longtime pilot, was en route to a business meeting when his plane vanished.
The U.S. Coast Guard completed its second day of an air and sea search Monday for Henry's plane, but was able to search only for two hours because of blizzard conditions over the inland bay, she said.
``They searched the entire bay, but the weather was too severe. Tomorrow they're going to take aircraft over the Virginia peninsula, which is the most likely location he could have put the plane down,'' she said.
The search for the aircraft will resume at daybreak today, said Lt. Philip Schifflin of the Coast Guard's Portsmouth, Va., station.
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