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Date: Dec. 19, 2009 |
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UPDATE: Coast Guard suspends search for overdue pilot |
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NEW ORLEANS — The Coast Guard suspended its search at approximately 8 a.m. Saturday for the 50-year-old man who reportedly lost radio communications after departing St. Petersburg, Fla., Tuesday, in a single engine airplane. The Coast Guard received a call from the Air Force Rescue Coordination Center at approximately 4 p.m., Thursday, reporting that Mark Nichter lost radio communications at approximately 9,900 feet, Tuesday, 140 miles southwest of St. Petersburg, Fla. Coast Guard Aviation Training Center Mobile, Ala., launched an HC-144 Ocean Sentry airplane and crew and conducted three search patterns, totaling 1,890 square miles, an area larger than Rhode Island. ### Saving Lives and Guarding the Coast Since 1790.
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