Coast Guard ends search for missing pilot heading to Georgetown

NEW ORLEANS (KXAN) — The U.S. Coast Guard has ended its search for missing pilot Bill Kinsinger, who was flying to Georgetown last week to pick up an older rescue dog when his plane went off radar in the Gulf of Mexico.
The Coast Guard says its crews searched 17,458 nautical square miles for around 79 hours. Kinsinger, 55, of Oklahoma City, was flying a Cirrus S22T single-engine plane from Oklahoma to Central Texas when he was last seen on radar at 15,000 feet going into the Gulf of Mexico