Crime & Safety
High-Tech Search For 1968 Plane That Crashed In Lake Superior Shows Nothing So Far
The team can drop a small cylindrical device overboard to record images and collect more data from possible hot spots on the lake bottom.
September 13, 2024
An ambitious high-tech search in Lake Superior so far has turned up no sign of a plane that crashed in 1968, killing three people who were on a scientific research trip.
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An autonomous vessel was launched Monday in a section of the vast lake where the Beechcraft Queen Air is believed to have crashed off the Keweenaw Peninsula. The Armada 8 sends sonar readings and other data to experts trailing it on boats.
"We have not definitively confirmed any targets as aircraft at this time," said Travis White, a research engineer at the Great Lakes Research Center at Michigan Technological University, speaking from a boat Thursday.
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