Missing Aircraft, March 25

The U.S. Coast Guard has suspended its search for an airplane that went down near the mouth of the Columbia River Wednesday. Pilot John McKibbin was helping a woman spread her husband’s ashes when the wreck occurred about three-quarters of a mile north of the Rogue Ales Public House in Astoria. Authorities searched the area for more than 12-hours over two-days. The plane was a two-seater antique North American AT-6 aircraft.