The family of a young flight instructor and her student pilot that died in a plane crash last fall near Little Falls recently made a $500 donation to the Minnesota Wing of the Civil Air Patrol on the anniversary of their daughter's death.
The family of Annette Klosterman thanked CAP members for their "diligence, perseverance and detail" while searching last October when the plane carrying their daughter and Adam Ostapenko was reported missing.
"Although the outcome was not what we had prayed and hoped for, we are extremely thankful that the plane was discovered and recovery was made," wrote Jim and Jan Klosterman, and their son, Peter Klosterman.
Klosterman, 22, a University of North Dakota flight instructor from Seattle and Ostapenko, 20, an aviation student from Duluth, were flying in a twin-engine Piper Seminole from St. Paul to Grand Forks, N.D., on Oct. 23, 2007, when air traffic officials in Minneapolis lost contact with the plane around 10 p.m. near Little Falls.
About 50 members and seven aircraft of the Minnesota Wing of the Civil Air Patrol began searching for the plane the next morning. A Civil Air Patrol aircrew and ground team located the airplane in a swamp late afternoon about 20 miles northwest of Little Falls.
For more information on Minnesota CAP go to www.mncap.org.
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