Fri, Jan 21, 2005
Retired Oklahoma Physician And His Kit Fox Missing For
Days
Where is Dr. Jack Nolen? He's been
missing now for a week, after his Kitfox disappeared from radar on
a flight from Paris, TX, to Shawnee, OK last Friday. The aircraft
disappeared from radar near Gerty, OK and the 72-year old doctor
hasn't been seen since.
The manager of the Paris, TX, airport told reporters Nolen
appeared to be having GPS trouble the morning before he
disappeared.
"The gas tanks on the plane would have given him considerable
flying time," his ex-wife, Susan McColley, told the Muskogee
Phoenix. "He could have flown a long way after they lost him on the
radar. No telling where he could be."
So the Civil Air Patrol is now searching an area 2,300 square
miles wide, hoping for some sign of Nolen or his Kitfox (file photo
of type, below).
Dr. Nolen was missed in church last Sunday. "He's got his spot
where we know to look for him every Sunday morning," Pastor Kevin
Tully with St Paul United Methodist Church told KOTV. "I just
wanted to make a special effort so instead of doing what we
normally do to end a service, I asked that everybody take a moment
in their seat or come to the alter rail if they wished to offer a
prayer for him."
Later, Pastor Tully told the Tulsa TV station, "Whatever has
happened already has, but we pray and we're confident that he's in
God's care and we hope for the good and happy ending that we wish
for."
Nolen's homebuilt, two-place Kitfox is blue and white with a red
spinner on the prop. Authorities involved in the search said the
aircraft is equipped with a ballistic parachute system.
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