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Dive Crews To Search Great Salt Lake For Missing Plane

utah.com

Authorities in northwestern Utah are preparing for a dive into the Great Salt Lake this weekend. They say they've found an object in the lake that could be a small plane that's been missing since late last month.

A Cessna with two people aboard didn't return to the Ogden airport after a short sightseeing trip on Dec. 29.

Box Elder County Sheriff's officials spotted an object Saturday that could possibly be an aircraft. Winter storms have hampered the search.

A sheriff's scuba team and Weber County Sheriff's personnel plan to take a closer look at the object sometime this weekend, depending on weather conditions.

Authorities say 71-year-old pilot Denny Mansell and former USU professor and Logan resident 74-year-old passenger Peter Ellis intended to fly to the Promontory Point area.

The Cessna 172 may have flown over a steam locomotive festival in northern Utah before it went missing.

At 14-years-old, Kerry began working as a reporter for KVEL “The Hot One” in Vernal, Utah. Her radio news interests led her to Logan where she became news director for KBLQ while attending Utah State University. She graduated USU with a degree in Broadcast Journalism and spent the next few years working for Utah Public Radio. Leaving UPR in 1993 she spent the next 14 years as the full time mother of four boys before returning in 2007. Kerry and her husband Boyd reside in Nibley.