KTVU KTVU Fox 2 News At 6pm December 21, 2015
San jose and was headed to henderson, nevada just outside las vegas. The pilot of the singleengine piper cherokee 6 reportedly sent out a mayday call before losing contract with air Traffic Controllers around 4 00 yesterday afternoon. The faa sent out a search and rescue alert. The sheriff found the wreckage about three hours later in an orchard south of bakersfield. Federal investigators are looking into what went wrong and if weather played a role. I checked with our meteorologist mark tamayo and he says there were clouds and rain in the area around the time the plane went off radar. Lets ch...