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Search continues in USVI for missing pilot
Published on October 23, 2012 Email To Friend    Print Version

ST THOMAS, USVI -- A team of enforcement officers from the Department of Planning and Natural Resources took to the seas southwest and west of St Thomas in the US Virgin Islands on Monday afternoon to begin a series of periodic inspections of the shorelines of various cays around St Thomas.

The mission was aimed at determining whether the body of missing pilot Kirby Hodge was taken out to sea following the October 13 crash of the Aztec Piper he was piloting.

“This is a proactive move by our lead response agency in the event that the pilot’s body may have been taken out from the crash site and made it to the shoreline of any of the number of cays that lie southwest and west of the site where the plane crashed into the ocean,” according to DPNR Commissioner Alicia Barnes.

Barnes said the department was not going on any reports of the sighting of a body; it was a pre-emptive move to make some final searches of the various cays around St Thomas.

The decision to launch some more periodic inspections of the various shorelines in and around St Thomas is consistent with the overall objective of the recovery mission, to locate the passengers and pilot of the ill-fated flight.
 
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