The Curry County Sheriff’s Office with the assistance of Josephine County, Douglas County, Jackson County, Coos County, Klamath County, Oregon Emergency Management, and U.S. Coast Guard continue to search for the small plane and three passengers that was reported missing on July 5, 2016 after he took off from Brookings with a flight plan to Grants Pass. Search crews using side scan sonar technology have searched a large area just off the coast of Brookings, Or., near Rainbow Rock where it is believed the plane crashed into the ocean. Search crews have spent many hours on the ocean by boats trying to locate the plane and it’s passengers, John Belnap, Max Belnap and Ryan Merker all of Grants Pass, Or. Dan Bratten of Cal Or Life Flight has been instrumental to the search by using their helicopter to search the area by air. Search crews continue to locate what is believed to be aviation fuel on top of the water in the same general area where also a T-Shirt later identified by family members belonging to John Belnap was found by divers on the bottom of the ocean in about fifty-five feet of water. Other areas of interest have been searched by divers as well.
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