Air Search Continues for Missing Yachtsman
<i> Associated Press</i>
NEW YORK —
Coast Guard planes Monday searched waters northeast of Bermuda for signs of veteran yachtsman Mike Plant, who was more than two weeks overdue in France on a solo Atlantic crossing.
Planes operating out of Bermuda concentrated on an area about 600 miles northeast of the island. The search began Friday.
Plant, 41, set out Oct. 16 from New York to Les Sables d’Olonne in France for the start of an around-the-world race. He was in a 60-foot sloop called Coyote.
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