Published January 28, 2010, 08:10 AM

Body of missing pilot recovered in Louisiana

The body of a Mitchell native was found late Tuesday evening in Lake Pontchartrain near New Orleans.
Navy Lt. Clinton Wermers was found at 1 a.m. Wednesday close to the T-34 Turbomentor plane that he and a student pilot were flying before the accident, said Jay Cope, deputy public affairs officer for Naval Air Station Whiting Field in Florida.

By: Melanie Brandert, The Daily Republic

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