Search continues for missing pilots from Houston, Wisconsin
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CORPUS CHRISTI - The search continues for the two pilots missing since Wednesday when they lost contact with the Navy control tower.
The pilots, both instructors, were identified Friday as Lt. John Joseph Houston of Houston and Lt. Bret Travis Miller of Wisconsin. They were aboard a T-34 Naval training airplane.
The search began Wednesday afternoon after contact was lost and the T-34 fell off the radar.
The Coast Guard was called at 4 p.m.
The Coast Guard then began searching the area of Port O'Connor and Port Aransas.
Houston has been commissioned since May 2001. Miller was commissioned in May 2002.
"We're going to continue to search," said Lt. Brett Dawson, public affairs officer of Chief of Naval Air Training, "We're still hopeful to find them."
Dawson said a buoy tender with sonar capability will be taken to the search area.
Three Coast Guard boats are searching the coast. An aerial search has been ongoing with helicopter, and Customs and Border Patrol planes.
"We're hopeful that we can still find them," said Dawson. "We appreciate all that Coast Guard is doing."
Coast Guard Lt. Nick Leiter said there has not been any substantial evidence of the plane crashing.
"There's been no debris found," Leiter said.
Leiter said he anticipated good searching conditions for the weekend after the search was called off Thursday evening due to bad weather.
