Another plane headed to Oklahoma has gone missing

Authorities in eastern Oklahoma are searching for a plane that disappeared while flying from Arkansas to Oklahoma.

The LeFlore County Sheriff's Department said Wednesday that search crews are looking in a heavily wooded area of the Ouachita National Forest in southeastern Oklahoma.

Seale says the search began Tuesday after the Federal Aviation Administration contacted the sheriff's department and said 71-year-old Elmer Ray Broadbent and his Piper 28 aircraft disappeared while flying from Searcy to Elk City.

Seale says an Oklahoma Highway Patrol helicopter is being used in the search.

This is the second plane that has gone missing this week. A Pryor couple was killed earlier this week when their plane went down in Arkansas on its way from Alabama to Claremore, Okla.