Search to resume Sunday for missing plane

Saturday, Oct. 31, 1998 | 10:54 a.m.

Searchers failed again Saturday to find the plane carrying pilot William Goss, 54, of Nevada City, Calif., his wife, Karen, 54, and their son, Matthew, 24.

The search has been focused in the Virginia Peak area south of Pyramid Lake, which is located about 30 miles northwest of Reno.

Washoe County sheriff's deputies said the area features rugged terrain and they'll resume a ground search of the area Sunday.

"Conditions are very poor, with a lot of mud," sheriff's Lt. Geof Wise said. "One horse mounted search team had to turn back when the mud was so bad that it pulled some off the horseshoes off of their mounts."

The Cessna 182 left Grass Valley, Calif., early Thursday on the first leg of a flight that was to have ended in Montana.

More than 100 searchers from seven Nevada counties, the Civil Air Patrol and the Pyramid Lake Tribal Police have participated in the search.

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