Search resumes for missing plane, pilot

WADENA, Minn. (AP) — Volunteers searched by air and ground again Tuesday in northwestern Minnesota for a missing pilot.

Major Al Pabon (PAY'-bon) says the Civil Air Patrol is slightly expanding its search grid beyond the 4,000 square miles already covered. Pabon says 10 airplanes and five ground crews searched an area between St. Cloud and Fosston Tuesday.

Family members say that pilot Andrew Lindberg of Farmington was the only person aboard the PA-28 Piper Cherokee that left the Airlake Airport near Lakeville on Friday. He was planning to go to Hallock, in northwestern Minnesota, to go deer hunting with his father. He never arrived.

Pabon says ground searchers are dealing with a variety of terrain, including marshland and forests.