Was Enroute From Georgia To Eufaula, AL

ANN REALTIME UPDATE 10.08.07 1845 EDT: Search crews have located the wreckage of a single-engine Bellanca aircraft that went missing over Georgia Friday afternoon... as well as the body of the plane's pilot, Kyle Boss.

Representatives with Bainbridge, GA-based Ag-Flight told BainbridgeNews.com Boss, a 22-year-old student pilot who had been at the school for about six weeks, took off on a routine flight to Eufaula, AL late Friday afternoon. Crews began their search for the missing pilot after he failed to return from the two-hour flight.

One witness, a resident of Baker County, reportedly told search crews they saw the accident aircraft in a steep nose-down attitude, which the resident did not consider unusual for a crop-dusting plane. The information helped crews narrow their search, and the wreckage was found a short time later.

Original Report

1200 EDT: Aero-News readers and pilots are asked to be on the lookout for a pilot whose Citabria went missing this weekend on a flight from southern Georgia to Eufaula, AL.

WSFA-12 in Montgomery, AL reports Kyle Boss, 22, departed an airfield in south Georgia Friday, but never made it to his destination. Crews searching from the air and on the ground have so far been unable to locate the plane (file photo of type shown at right.)

Georgia Emergency Management Agency spokesman Gary Rice says state patrol helicopters are assisting Civil Air Patrol aircraft in the search.

The search area -- -- which spans approximately 1200 square miles, centered on the Chatahoochee River from Bainbridge, GA to Eufaula -- includes dense wooded areas.

Boss was flying N62970, a Bellanca 7GCBC Citabria two-place tandem, high-wing aircraft.

Anyone with information on the plane's disappearance is asked to contact local authorities.

FMI: http://dps.georgia.gov, www.cap.gov