CLEVELAND, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- The U.S. Coast Guard suspended its Lake Erie search for a missing small airplane carrying an Ohio beverage company executive, his family and family friends.
Coast Guard officials said they spent about 20 hours and covered some 128 square miles in the lake in the search for the aircraft. Superior Beverage Group president and CEO John T. Fleming, his wife Sue, sons Jack and Andrew and two family friends were believed to be aboard, family friends said.