A woman survived Saturday night’s crash and was picked up a boat in the area.
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Petty Officer 3rd Class Lexie Preston said the Coast Guard received the report of a plane crash at 8:20 p.m on Saturday.
The New Orleans Fire Department said divers found the wreckage Sunday afternoon.
August 29-Recovery crews searching for the wreckage of a small Cessna airplane that crashed into Lake Pontchartrain near Lakefront Airport in New Orleans on Saturday night (Aug. 27) found the plane’s remains on Sunday afternoon, as rescue boats and a United States Coast Guard helicopter continued searching for two men still missing from the plane.
A Coast Guard helicopter searches over Lakeshore Drive on Sunday, near the Seabrook Bridge after a plane crashed into Lake Pontchartrain Saturday night..
Edwin Holmes says there should be more information about them on Monday, when the plane will be pulled back out of Lake Pontchartrain. New Orleans Fire Department spokesman Gregory Davis said the. He said the bodies of the pilot and one passenger were in the plane’s cabin.
The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating the cause of the crash, the Coast Guard said. The extent of the woman’s injuries and her current condition were not known up to Sunday evening but first responders reported that they saw her before she was taken to the hospital and had managed to walk on her own from a rescue boat into an awaiting ambulance on the shore.
A family member said Reginald was able to unbuckle Davis from her seat and push her out of the aircraft after it hit the water.
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He says the fire department’s fireboat carried divers from the police department’s dive team out to help the Coast Guard.
