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Airplane missing four days
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
DEAN BOHN
THE SAGINAW NEWS

Authorities met late Monday to decide whether to continue to search for a missing aircraft and two people aboard.

Search and rescue teams were taking a close look along Lake Huron and its shoreline after the single-engine private plane failed to arrive at a Thumb airport Friday.

Karen Dodds of Washington, D.C., was piloting the plane, a relative said. She was flying with her fiance, Brooke Stauffer, also of Washington, D.C., said Stauffer's first cousin, John P. Stauffer, 59, of Asheboro, N.C.

Brooke Stauffer, who is in his mid-50s, is a widower; Dodds is divorced, Stauffer said.

"He was (in Michigan) visiting relatives," Stauffer said. "He was supposed to meet a relative in Bad Axe and see another relative in Saginaw, but he never made it."

Authorities would not confirm the pilot or the passenger's identities Monday.

The four-seat blue-and-white aircraft left Mackinac Island Airport about noon Friday, bound for Huron County Memorial Airport in Bad Axe, authorities have said.

Search crews have focused on the craft's projected flight path but so far have found no sign of the airplane or its passengers. Officials said they think the pilot and a passenger were on a sight-seeing tour of northern Michigan.