PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - The Linn County sheriff’s office says searchers looking for a missing small plane have found wreckage and a body in the foothills of the Cascade Range.
The sheriff’s office says in a statement that it hasn’t been able yet to make positive identifications at the site in the Coburg Hills just east of Interstate 5 in southern Linn County.
The site is on Mount Tom, a 3,170-foot peak.
The wreckage was pinpointed Friday morning by an Oregon Army National Guard helicopter.
The missing pilot is 41-year-old Lee Leslie of Vancouver, Washington. He took off from Hobby Field south of Eugene in a single-engine plane Tuesday evening.
It disappeared from radar about 15 minutes later.
The air field is at Creswell. The crash site is about 20 miles northeast.
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