MINNESOTA -- The search for a Twin Cities area pilot and his plane in Northeastern Minnesota has entered its second week and now involves Civil Air Patrol aircrews from Minnesota, Wisconsin and Illinois. CAP pilots have already logged about 630 hours in the search for Michael Bratlie, a 67-year-old pilot from Lakesville, who was breaking in a new engine on his white twin-engine Piper PA-31 Navajo when he disappeared. Such missions are nothing new for CAP, as told in this story by Steve Kuchera in the Duluth News Tribune, which chronicles the search for Bratlie.
