A UK English professor's son has been missing in the montains of West Virgina since he lost contact with an air traffic controller five minutes after he took off in a twin engine plane.
Colin Cambell, 31, took off from Wesbter County at 9:30 a.m. on Nov. 28 and was last heard from at 9:35 a.m. He was flying to his home Lynchburg, Va., said Don McCourt, director of Emergency Services for Wesbter County.
Campbell is the son of associate professor William Campbell, who has been teaching at UK for 28 years.
Colin Campbell's plane was flying at about 35,000 ft. under heavy fog when he was last heard from.
"We haven't found a thing," McCourt said. "We have thousands of people on the ground searching."
William Campbell had joined the search party in Wesbter County but has returned to Lexington, McCourt said. William Campbell's brother is continuing to search with rescue officials.
McCourt said rescue officals have searched on the ground and have seven planes looking from the air.
"We have found absolutely nothing," McCourt said.
The area where the plane diappeared in southwest Webster County is a very dense forest, making it very difficult to search, McCourt said.
In addition to the thick forest rescue efforts were hindered by five inches of snow that covered the mountain. McCourt said the snow is beginning to melt and may help the search.
Emergency rescue efforts will be shut down Nov. 12, seven days after it began, McCourt said.
"We will find (the plane) eventually," McCourt said.
He said the chances of finding Colin Campbell alive may be slim.
"Imagine having to survive in a house with no food or water for eight days," McCourt said. "Much less having to survive in the elements."