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| Wreckage of Missing Plane Carrying Officer, Inmate Found |
| By Idaho Statesman |
| Published: 03/15/2002 |
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A plane carrying a Juvenile Corrections officer, a 16-year-old inmate and a pilot was found Wednesday about 12 miles northeast of Atlanta in the Sawtooth Range of Central Idaho. The wreckage of a state of Idaho aircraft was spotted by an Idaho National Guard helicopter crew in about 8 feet of snow on the side of a rugged mountain in Boise County. Its wings and fuselage apparently separated upon impact, officials said. 'We didn’t see it until we were right on top of it,' said Boise County Sheriff Gary Brown, who was on one of two search helicopters. The plane´s occupants -- pilot Jay Lee Morris, Idaho Juvenile Corrections officer William J. Mann, and a juvenile being transported to Nampa -- could not be seen from the air. There was no word Wednesday on whether they survived. The Boise County Sheriff’s Office will lead a recovery effort when weather permits. Searchers decided Wednesday evening that today’s weather probably will not allow them to enter the area. 'It’s on a very steep incline. We hovered over it at about tree high. We saw no sign of survivors,' Brown said. Idaho National Guard crews flying an Apache helicopter and a Blackhawk helicopter made several attempts to locate the plane. Brown said snowstorms turned back the two helicopters several times. Eventually, the helicopters moved from ridge to ridge above the bad weather. 'We had to leave the scene sooner than we planned because bad weather was coming in,' Brown said. A recovery crew will have to rappel down to the plane because there is nowhere to land, Brown said. 'The only way we can get in there is by chopper,' Brown said. Mann, 59, joined the Idaho Department of Juvenile Corrections´ Nampa facility in May 1998 as a therapeutic resource officer trainee before becoming a safety and security officer. He was assigned to juvenile transports the past two years. Mann lived in Canyon County with his wife and children. Brent Reinke, director of Juvenile Corrections, said staff members were with Mann´s family Wednesday. Reinke said the department typically makes one or two cross-state trips by air each week to transport inmates between regions. It is policy to restrain all inmates during transportation, Reinke said. The twin-engine Piper Navajo, one of four aircraft owned by the Idaho Transportation Department´s Aeronautics Division, left Boise early Tuesday for Lewiston and then flew to Idaho Falls, where it was refueled and the juvenile was picked up. The juvenile´s name will not be released because of his age. The plane left Idaho Falls at about 1:10 p.m. Tuesday and dropped from the FAA´s Salt Lake Center radar tracking at about 2:37 p.m. |
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