Linn County, Ore. –Searchers looking for a missing single-engine plane said they found a body in the wreckage in Linn County on Friday.
Sheriff Bruce Riley sent in a ground team to verify that it was the Piper PA-28 Cherokee that was reported missing on Tuesday evening.
The body found in the wreckage has not been identified. The Oregon Civil Air Patrol says the plane, piloted by 41-year-old Lee Cheshire Leslie of Vancouver, left Hobby Field in Creswell late Tuesday afternoon and was supposed to land in Vancouver an hour later.
The plane went off radar about 15 minutes into the flight. Stay with NBC5 News for details on this developing situation.
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