KANSAS CITY, Kan. -- Volunteers who searched late Sunday night for what they thought was a downed small plane found the aircraft's emergency signal in a garage.
KMBC's Emily Aylward reported that crews searched a neighborhood near
110th Street and Parkview around 11 p.m. It turned out that the
homeowner is a pilot who had taken the beacon out his aircraft for
maintenance and was unaware that it had been emitting a signal.
The signal was picked up by satellite and an Air Force base in Virginia notified Kansas authorities that an aircraft may have gone down.
"We can't ever take a chance. We always have to assume that an airplane could have gone down without someone hearing it crash. We want to get to that site as fast as possible with the assumption that there could be some injuries and lives in distress. We can't ever abandon the call. We have to keep searching until we find it," said Dennis Pearson, of the Kansas Wing Civil Air Patrol.
Aylward said that bad wiring in the emergency beacon may have caused it to go off accidentally.
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