Weather hampers search for pilot missing near Lake Clark

Published 8:04 am Wednesday, November 2, 2016

ANCHORAGE — The National Park Service says poor weather Monday again hampered efforts to find an Anchorage pilot missing in Lake Clark National Park and Preserve.

The agency said 55-year-old David McRae left Anchorage Friday for Lake Clark.

Authorities have not been able to contact him and are trying to reach a location where an emergency locator transmitter beacon was activated.

The National Park Service says the ELT signal is coming from the 5,000-foot level of mountains between Merrill Pass and Telaquana Lake.

The Alaska Air National Guard has been searching by helicopter but has been unable to reach the area.