June 4, 2025 - Search for missing plane continues in Lake Superior, nearly 60 years after it disappeared

A team from Michigan Technological University returned to investigate 16 sonar targets identified during a search last fall. The effort builds on a mission launched in September by the Smart Ships Coalition, a network of over 60 universities, government agencies, companies, and international organizations focused on maritime autonomous technologies, which deployed an autonomous vessel to search for an aircraft that crashed nearly 60 years ago.

“We did not locate any sign of the wreckage of the missing aircraft,” said Travis White, a research engineer at the Great Lakes Research Center at Michigan Tech. “However, we did validate our technical approach, as we found physical objects in each target location.”

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