Pilot killed in plane crash on Mount Hood

A pilot who has been missing since last week when he flew a plane from a Clark County, Wash., airport is believed dead after his plane was found crashed on Mount Hood, authorities said on Tuesday.

KGW reports that George Regis, 63, of Battle Ground, took off out of Grove Field Airport on Friday in a four-person, single engine plane. Authorities believe he was the only person in the plane, which the Hood River County Sheriff’s Office said was headed for Arizona.

On Tuesday afternoon, Civil Air Patrol located a signal from a plane’s emergency locator in the area of Eliot Glacier, on the northeast side of Mount Hood.

The CAP pilot confirmed the tail number of the plane was the same as the plane Regis flew. An Oregon Air National Guard helicopter crew confirmed there was a body as well, believed to be Regis, the Hood River County Sheriff’s Office said.

A recovery operation will take place on Wednesday morning.