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Search to resume for missing pilot
Uncertain whether a pilot facing mail fraud charges is really dead, authorities plan to resume a search for wreckage of a plane believed to have plunged into Lake Erie on New Year's Eve.
Mary Lou Poulos said she is confident her husband, Daniel, a pilot, was killed in a reported crash. But crash investigators say no wreckage positively identified as being from the plane has been found, and that they are not sure the plane did go down.
'I'm not sure (what happened to Poulos),' said Capt. Kevin Caffery, commander of the Erie County Sheriff's Underwater Recovery Team. 'That's why we're going out -- to answer all of those unanswered questions.'
Divers were expected to usesonar in their search today, he said.
Poulos, 41, of Getzville, N.Y., is believed to have crashed a twin-engine Cessna 301 cargo plane into the lake on a flight for Buffalo Express Airlines from Jamestown to Lockport.
'We have some good coordinates,' Caffery said, adding that the team will search in waters ranging from 30 to 50 feet deep.
If the plane is found, the National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration will decide whether to raise it. If it is not found, the Coast Guard will bring in a special side-scan sonar unit capable of searching an area the size of a football field.
Poulos, missing since the reported crash, was indicted last week by a federal grand jury on charges of mail fraud and abetting others in filing false income tax returns.
The pilot's wife said she had no doubts her husband is dead, and regrets she never had a chance to bury him.
'If everybody else wants to think Dan is alive and sitting on some island somewhere, that's fine,' she said. 'His family knows better. I want my husband's body found, and I want that plane found.
'I want to know what happened. I've accepted the fact that he's dead, but I haven't had the comfort of a funeral mass or burial.'
