Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Pilot's remains recovered

NEW ORLEANS, La. -- The body of Lt. Clinton Wermers, a Navy pilot whose training plane crashed Saturday in Lake Pontchartrain, has been recovered by divers. Wermers and a student aviator were in a T-34 assigned to Naval Air Station Whiting Field in Milton, Fla., when they crashed on approach to the New Orleans Lakefront Airport. The student was rescued Saturday. Wermer's remains were recovered Wednesday around 1 a.m. (Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune, 01/27/10)