DULUTH, Minn. (AP) -- Air and ground crews in northeastern Minnesota have resumed their search for a pilot who has been missing for more than a week.

Lt. Col. Paul Hertel of the Civil Air Patrol says the search continues for pilot Mike Bratlie and his Piper PA-31 Navajo plane. Bratlie departed from a South St. Paul airport on June 8 heading to the Duluth area.

Hertel says the search effort has been difficult because the area where they're looking is heavily wooded .He says adverse weather Saturday afternoon may limit the use of search aircraft.

Hertel says crews from Minnesota, Wisconsin and Illinois are focusing on the Silver Bay area, where radar last detected the pilot. The crews are also rechecking leads that were called into mission base.

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(WEAU) - The Eau Claire Civil Air Patrol is helping in the search for a missing pilot in northeastern Minnesota.

The search resumed Friday after Thursday's stormy weather put a temporary halt to the air search for a suspected downed plane. The Minnesota Civil Air Patrol says the bad weather grounded the planes.

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DULUTH, Minn. (AP) -- Crews will be out again Saturday looking for a missing pilot in northeastern Minnesota.

Lt. Col. Paul Hertel (HUR'-tuhl) of the Civil Air Patrol says crews searched from the air and ground Friday without finding any signs of the suspected downed plane.

Hertel says the air and ground search will continue Saturday. An additional ground team will join the search.

After being grounded by stormy weather Thursday, the air search resumed Friday for pilot Mike Bratlie and his Piper PA-31 Navajo plane.

Bratlie departed from a South St. Paul airport on June 8 and was headed to the Duluth area.

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DULUTH, Minn. (AP) -- Planes are back in the air searching for a missing pilot in northeastern Minnesota.

Thursday's stormy weather put a temporary halt to the air search for a suspected downed plane.

Lt. Col. Keith Bischoff of the Minnesota Civil Air Patrol tells the Duluth News Tribune the bad weather grounded the eight planes. But a ground search with 35 volunteers went on despite the rainy weather

Bischoff says a "full force" of planes was out Friday looking for pilot Mike Bratlie and his Piper PA-31 Navajo plane.

Bratlie departed from a South St. Paul airport on June 8 and was headed to the Duluth area.

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