Search and rescue efforts resumed after a brief suspension for an aircraft piloted by Christopher Moore after new information was received. The Bristol plane went missing in the northern Bahamas over the weekend.
Moore’s wife, Stacey Love told ZNS News that Moore’s cell phone pinged twenty miles out of Treasure Cay, Abaco. “His cell phone pinged off one of the towers either Aliv or BTC sometime around 1 pm. In a search of the waters there’s nothing visible about the plane so we’re struggling because he’s either in the bush or the mangroves probably and we definitely need to get the data so that we can get to that area.”
Love added that her husband was advised to move out of landing pattern due to air traffic. She said, “you can either turn north or south out of the approach and somewhere we lost him once he turned out of the pattern to come and circle to come back into the pattern.”
The initial search and rescue efforts covered 400 square miles near Abaco. On Thursday Tropic Air Rescue Chief Pilot Antonio Marinello said, “he could be in some deep water. He could be lost in an area that we haven’t searched yet. So they’re gonna go up with some drones and some airplanes this morning and they’re gonna keep trying to find it. The most important thing at this point is to get the triangularization of the cell phone data and once that’s done it’ll narrow the search pattern down tremendously.”
Marinello added, “I’ll keep my fingers crossed that he somehow survived and he’s just in a position that he can’t either escape from the wreckage and he’s still with us.”
After the search resumed a wrecked airplane was found 4 miles off Abaco on Thursday morning. Aircraft Accident Investigation Authority Chief Investigator, Kendol Dorsett said it is still a fluid situation and that comment would not be appropriate. Efforts were still underway on Thursday evening to recover a body they believed to be onboard the plane.
