NATION IN BRIEF : HAWAII : Sightseeing Plane Wreckage Is Found

Searchers found the wreckage of a sightseeing plane that crashed with nine people aboard in a lava field near the summit of a dormant volcano. An official with Scenic Air Tours Hawaii said the plane went down far off course. When it crashed, the plane was flying the last leg of a daylong, four-island excursion, a 250-mile trip from Hilo on Hawaii Island to Honolulu on Oahu, said Rob Jackson, the tour company’s director of operations. Thick clouds blanketed much of the island Wednesday, when radar lost track of the Beech 18 twin-engine plane.