Story highlights US Coast Guard has ended rescue operation, now focuses on remains recovery

Three adults, three children on board the plane, Coast Guard says

(CNN) Police announced Saturday they would begin a new search and recovery operation for the remains of the passengers from a small plane believed to have crashed in Lake Erie Thursday night.

During a press conference on Saturday, officials said investigators will build a grid and identify the plane's last communication. A team of divers and marine experts will extract the remains.

The plane was registered to a beverage company executive and is based at Ohio State University Airport, the airport's director told CNN Friday.

The executive's father, John W. Fleming, told the Columbus Dispatch that his son, John T. Fleming, was at the controls of the Cessna that went missing Thursday night after the pilot, his family and friends attended a Cleveland Cavaliers basketball game.

"The airplane is based at our airport, it left from the airport and it did not come home last night," Doug Hammon, the airport's director, said Friday.

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