A small airplane with three people on board is in Lake Michigan following a mid-flight problem after departing from Milwaukee and heading to Michigan, an airport spokesperson said.
The U.S. Coast Guard and other rescue and dive teams are responding to the incident which occurred about 20 miles east of Bender Park at about 12:37 p.m., a spokesperson for Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport said in an email.
The plane left the airport at about 12:17 p.m. and was headed to Michigan, before the problem occurred and the plane “ended up” in the water, the spokesperson said.
No details on the nature of the emergency are known at this time, the spokesperson said.
The plane was a Cirrus SR22 aircraft, which is a small single-engine propeller plane, the spokesperson said.
The U.S. Coast Guard did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the rescue operation.
This is a breaking story and it will be updated with new information.
David Clarey is a public safety reporter at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. He can be reached at dclarey@gannett.com.
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