Plane crash reported in Lake Pontchartrain, USA |

The U.S. Coast Guard deployed a helicopter and boat crews Saturday night to investigate reports of a small plane crashing in Lake Pontchartrain. The agency said it received two reports of a Piper-type plane down at about 8 p.m. but had not confirmed them.

By 11:30 p.m., search crews found no evidence of any wreckage. And boats in the area did not report hearing or seeing a plane go down, according to the Coast Guard.

Crews continued to search an area four to eight miles south of Mandeville, east of the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway.

Piper Aircraft Inc. makes four- and six-seat airplanes.

The reports came from a group of women who called from a home near the lake and said they had heard a loud splash, and from a driver on the Causeway, a Coast Guard officer said.

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