Plane with 10 crashes on US-Canada border

Coast Guard officer Jeff Hall said the Georgian Airlines plane took off from Peele Island, Canada bound for Windsor, Ontario. It crashed about a half mile off the coast of Peele Island, which is just north of Sandusky, Ohio.

Weather conditions were cold and icy in the area.

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The US Coast Guard was notified by Canadian officials of the missing plane at about 5:20 p.m. EST, he said. No other information about the people on board was available.

The pilot radioed a frantic call for help shortly after taking off about 5 p.m., but controllers then lost contact with the plane, said US Coast Guard Lt. j.g. Christopher Pasciuto. An island resident heard the plane laboring just before the crash, the Ontario Provincial Police said.