Small plane went down over Lake Pontchartrain during training flight, school says

A search is ongoing after a small plane went down over Lake Pontchartrain in New Orleans during a training flight, according to the owner of the Mississippi-based flight school. An instructor and student were on board the plane, according to the owner. The crash occurred Monday evening, authorities said. The United States Coast Guard said it was notified of a Cessna aircraft that had lost communications with air traffic control approximately 4 miles north of Lakefront Airport in New Orleans. Radar lost contact with the Cessna 172N at approximately 6:23 p.m. on Monday, nearly 40 minutes after it had departed Gulfport, Mississippi, and there was no further contact, according to Mike Carastro, owner and chief flight instructor for the flight school, Apollo Flight Training. "They are presumed