Police have not yet identified the pilot of a Cessna 208 that flew out of Sault Ste. Marie Airport on a short training flight on Wednesday and crashed about 500 km east of Churchill, Manitoba. Sault Ste.

Police have not yet identified the pilot of a Cessna 208 that flew out of Sault Ste. Marie Airport on a short training flight on Wednesday and crashed about 500 km east of Churchill, Manitoba.

Sault Ste. Marie Airport has confirmed that the plane flew out of the local airport but the Sault was not the home hangar for that plane.

The CBC reports that the Cessna left Sault Ste. Marie for a training flight north that was expected to last about half an hour.

Wreckage of the plane was located at 7 a.m. Thursday but no sign of the pilot and only occupant was located.

A search for the pilot was called off on Friday.