Carlisle fire chief: Search for aircraft that reportedly went down in pond resumes Friday morning

CARLISLE — The search for an aircraft that reportedly went down in a pond at a quarry just off Central Avenue resumed Friday morning, Carlisle Fire Chief Jeremy Lane told News Center 7.

A reported witness described the aircraft as a glider.

Search teams did not locate anything after Thursday night’s hours-long search, he said in a statement near the pond on private property off the 400 block of Central Avenue in Carlisle. The pond is believed to be in a gravel pit.

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An Ohio State Highway Patrol helicopter assisted in the first search efforts Friday morning, but found nothing, Lane confirmed.

Additional search efforts involving sonar are set to happen this afternoon.

There was no reason to believe the report of a possible downed aircraft was a false alarm, the chief said. There have been no missing persons reports or reports from area airfields or airports of a missing aircraft, he said.

A witness contacted the Lebanon Post just after 6:30 p.m. to report seeing a glider crash into a quarry on the south side of Central Avenue, between Union and Dayton-Oxford roads, the Ohio State Highway Patrol said in a news release late Thursday night.

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The search, which lasted more than four hours, was conducted on the ground and in the water by troopers with the Lebanon Post and public safety partners from numerous jurisdictions, the state patrol’s statement said. The patrol’s aviation unit was also a part of tonight’s search.

Agencies involved in the investigation and search include the Carlisle police and fire departments, ODNR, Joint Emergency Medical Services, Franklin police, Franklin Fire & EMS Division, Franklin Twp. fire, the Warren County Technical Rescue Team, Miami Valley Fire Department, Clinton Warren Joint Fire District, the Red Cross, and the Federal Aviation Administration.

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