Search for missing small plane continues

Craig Medred reports on the search for the deHavilland Beaver that went missing Saturday somewhere in the Katmai National Park and Preserve.

From Medred's story:

With hopes dimming for three young employees of the National Park Service and a pilot missing since Saturday, a small air force organized by the federal agency was back in the air over Katmai National Park and Preserve Tuesday.

Under blue skies and with search conditions optimum, agency officials had hoped to find some sign Monday of the missing, single-engine deHavilland Beaver flown by 47-year-old Marco Aletto, but they found nothing. Aboard the floatplane with the pilot when it left the outer coast of the Katmai park Saturday afternoon were Mason McLeod, 26, and two brothers, Neal Spradlin, 28; and Seth Spradlin, 20.

The Anchorage Daily News and Channel 2 also have stories on the missing plane. I also filmed a flight in a plane made by the same company when I visited Western Alaska two weeks ago to report on the Aug. 9 crash that killed five.