'No traces': Two weeks after plane disappears in Washington, search ends for missing pilot
Officials are calling off the search for a pilot after an extensive two-week effort produced no trace of the missing Washington man or his plane, a...
Officials are calling off the search for a pilot after an extensive two-week effort produced no trace of the missing Washington man or his plane, authorities announced Monday. Rod Collen, of Tacoma, and his 2006 Cessna Turbo T182 Skylane disappeared off radar March 6 a few minutes after he took off from the Tacoma Narrows Airport at 5:35 p.m., according to the Washington State Department of Transportation. There has been no sign of him since, the agency said. Collen's daughter, Audrey Collen, said in a Facebook post that her dad 'left behind his phone, work laptop, and flight bag and did not tell anyone where he was going.