KTVU KTVU Fox 2 News At 5pm December 23, 2015
It was just before noon, emergency crews had received reports of an aircraft in distress. Air Traffic Controllers had lost contact with the plane 12 miles east of Oakland International airport. Dozens of firefighters from Alameda County fire to livermorepleasanton fire centered around this area by nile canyon road after pinging the pilots cell phone. They hiked up dirt roads because they had difficulty getting around in their fire engines because of the muddy conditions. The terrain is very steep. Its been rain ing off and on the entire day. Its muddy. There are a lot of oak trees. Very interm...