FBI, Police Seeking Missing Flight Instructor Suspected Of Stealing Plane From Palo Alto Airport

A number of federal agencies are helping Palo Alto police look for a flight instructor who disappeared while flying over the Pacific coast in a stolen plane on May 8.

According to police, 24-year-old Palo Alto resident William James McAdams went missing after he took a 2011 G1000 Skyhawk 1TG plane from Palo Alto Municipal Airport around 1 a.m. Police said the airport reported the missing plane at 9 a.m.

That same day, federal aviation officials were able to track the plane somewhere off the coast of Watsonville, heading south.

No further signals have been detected and McAdams has not been heard from since, police said.

The FBI, the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Coast Guard and the Mexican Coast Guard are all assisting in the investigation. McAdams is the owner of Fly High Bay Area Aviation School, which operates out of the airport and uses private planes for flying lessons.

According to police, the plane McAdams left in was a private plane used for instruction.

--Bay City News

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