Air Force Expands Search for Lost Plane

The search for an Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt plane that disappeared west of Phoenix on Wednesday has been extended to Colorado, said a spokesman at the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base near Tucson. The plane, piloted by Capt. Craig David Button, disappeared west of Phoenix while on a training mission in a flight of three A-10s. On Friday, three children in Young, a central Arizona town, told Air Force officials they had seen the A-10 flying northeast, toward Colorado, on Wednesday. The Federal Aviation Administration used its radar logs to track what is believed to be the missing plane to Colorado. The aircraft was last sighted about 30 miles southwest of Telluride, a mountain resort town in southwestern Colorado, said Col. Barry Barksdale, commander of the 355th Fighter Wing at the Tucson base.