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Seminole Employees Lost in Mystery Plane Crash

What: single-engine Trinidad TB-20 registration N654GT en route from Montgomery, Ala., to North Perry Airport in Pembroke Pines
Where: just outside Pavo, Ga
When: Thursday August 27, 2009 wreckage found at 12:30 p.m August 28
Who: pilot/owner Robert F. Moreland and passenger Michael Villanueva
Why: The pilot had filed no flight plan, and bad weather hampered the search efforts. The plane crashed in a wooded area. We will be looking for updates on the cause.

George’s Point of View

Condolences to the families and to the Seminole tribe

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