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PROVO, Utah (KSL News/AP) - Family and friends watched and waited as crews spent a third day looking for three men missing in Utah Lake.
Dive teams and other searchers resumed recovery efforts Sunday. Utah County Sheriff's Office Lt. Darren Gilbert says teams resumed the search about 6 a.m.
Crews are also scouring the lake's shore for debris from the plane. Gilbert says only about 25 percent of the plane has been recovered.
Bad weather had slowed the search, so today crews took advantage of a clear day. Crews were on watercraft combing through debris on the shore-line. Dive teams used sonar equipment to aid in the search through the murky water.
A duty officer from the Federal Aviation Administration's Northwest Mountain Region office in Renton, Wash., says F-A-A investigators were also at the crash scene today.
The single-engine turboprop crashed shortly before midnight Thursday on its final approach to Provo Municipal Airport.
Missing are pilot Blaine Pugmire, of Springville, and passengers Harold "Les" McGuire, 35, of Highland and Ray Hooper, 35, of Mapleton.
Hooper's family says he was supposed to leave with them on a cruise today, instead they are remembering the type of man he was.
Kim Atterton, Sister: "He was a very giving and very caring man and just a wonderful brother who will be dearly dearly missed"
Gary Hooper, Brother: "I love you Ray, miss you"
Hooper leaves behind four children and one on the way.
The search has been called off for the night and crews will resume at 7 a-m tomorrow morning.
(The Associated Press Contributed to this story.)
