Pilot's body found in small plane wreckage in California

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A pilot was found dead in the wreckage of a small plane crash in the mountains northeast of Los Angeles hours after it disappeared from radar amid foggy, cloudy conditions, authorities said Sunday.

Rescuers on the ground and in the air looked for the Cessna 182 for several hours before locating it on Brown Mountain, in the Angeles National Forest above Altadena, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Kimberly Alexander said.

Eventually, the downed aircraft was located in the late afternoon on the side of a rugged cliff, the sheriff's office said.