COLUMBUS – Memorial services are scheduled for six Ohioans who were on a plane that disappeared over Lake Erie and is believed to have crashed.
The Columbus Dispatch reports a service is scheduled Monday in Canfield for the plane’s pilot, John Fleming; his wife, Sue; and their teenage sons, Jack and Andrew, and another is set for Sunday at a church in Delaware to celebrate the lives of 50-year-old Brian Casey and his daughter, 19-year-old University of Wisconsin nursing student Megan.
Cleveland officials say a tugboat is being used to break up ice on Lake Erie as divers resume their search for the plane.
The city says Monday that large pieces of debris have been spotted on the lake bottom and will be brought to the surface from an area searched Friday. The city says it’s unclear if the debris is part of the plane that vanished after takeoff from Burke Lakefront Airport on Dec. 29.
The plane’s cockpit voice recorder was found Friday along with a seat that might have human remains.