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PORT ANGELES, Wash. - The United States Coast Guard and Canadian Coast Guard have suspended search efforts for a missing pilot Wednesday afternoon after a plane reportedly went down off the waters of Port Angeles. The Port Angeles Airport received a mayday call Tuesday evening and alerted the Clallam County Sheriff's Office. Shortly after the Coast Guard started investigating the reports of a plane down in the water.
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The Great Lakes have been experiencing a low amount of ice cover so far this season. It’s been affecting the shipping industry as well as the United States Coast Guard in a positive way.
Operation Taconite is the largest domestic ice breaking operation in the country. Since ice levels have been low so far this season, they’ve been able to reallocate resources from the operation to other areas. “We have other missions, other than just ice breaking,” said Lt. Barton Nanney. “It’s something to where we can help focus on maybe another mission area where we don’t have to use those resources for ice breaking, whether it’s law enforcement, search and rescue if we had to.”
Howard Alexander - News Editor January 28, 2021 - 10:06 AM VICTORIA - The search for a small plane that issued a mayday distress call before losing contact over the Strait of Juan de Fuca between Washington and Vancouver Island has been suspended. The United States Coast Guard says in a tweet that American and Canadian searchers covered an area of more than 3,000 square kilometres without finding the lone pilot. Crews worked through the night Tuesday trying to track the small plane that took off from Ketchikan, Alaska, with one person aboard en route to Port Angeles, Wash. Officials with the Canadian Forces Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre say the pilot described his location before contact was lost.
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A construction worker from Pennsylvania died when the machine he was operating fell into frigid Linden waters, trapping him inside for nearly an hour Thursday morning, according to officials and news reports.
Fire and police units responded to a construction site at 4900 Tremley Point Road, where the excavator had fallen into the Arthur Kill River Channel the operator inside a small pocket of air around 8 a.m., Linden police said in a release.
The man was removed from the machine cab sometime around 9 a.m. by NYPD aviation divers. The construction worker was rushed to Trinitas Regional Medical Center, and later pronounced dead,