The Coast Guard has called off its search for the nine missing victims of a float plane that crashed west of Whidbey Island on Sunday afternoon.
Plane crash west of Whidbey Island kills 1, leaves 9 missing
The agency’s search and rescue team is focused on surface recovery, and the fuselage of the crashed de Havilland Canada DHC-3 Turbine Otter is presumed to be hundreds of feet below the water’s surface, according to Commander Xochitl Castañeda, the Search and Rescue Mission Coordinator for the incident.
The Coast Guard uses an “optimal planning system” to determine the likelihood of survival when crash victims are stranded in open water. Based on
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