Searchers Find Missing Plane and Human Remains in Michigan’s Lake Huron After 17 Years

Searchers Find Missing Plane and Human Remains in Michigan’s Lake Huron After 17 Years
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BOIS BLANC ISLAND, Mich.—Searchers discovered a small plane that crashed in Michigan’s Lake Huron 17 years ago, as well as the remains of a long-missing passenger, state police said Wednesday.

The remains were identified as H. Brooke Stauffer Jr., 56, who lived in Washington, D.C. He was a passenger in a plane that had departed Mackinac Island for a small town in Michigan’s Lower Peninsula in August 2007.