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A smashed plane discovered in a Pennsylvania field has been identified in media reports as belonging to missing couple Tom and Elaine Huf, a former Bristol Township police officer.
Missing since Labor Day, the former officer and her husband were discovered with their plane Sunday in Susquehanna County, according to the Associated Press.
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“Elaine & Tom had flown from their home in Kingsley, Pa. to Blakesburg, Iowa for the Antique Airfield Fly-In and were on the return flight home when the accident happened,” Ladies Love Taildraggers, a website dedicated to female pilots, posted.
The National Transportation Safety Bureau confirmed that two bodies were found inside the wreckage to the Associated Press, but both have yet to be identified by investigators.
The bodies were burned badly, Susquehanna County Coroner Anthony Conarton told the Associated Press.
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The pair was well known for their passion about flying and traveled to air shows around America in their vintage twin engine Cessna T-50.
On Friday, a search by the Pennsylvania Civil Air Patrol began with a sweep of the plane’s presumed path, which led to Barbra Sloat’s home, WNEP.com reported.
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“I told them it sounded like it went up on my hill, and that’s where they went. And that’s where they found them,” she said, according to a New York Daily News Report.
Bristol Township officials confirmed Huf was Bristol Township Officer for 27 years, retiring in March of 2002.
