LAKE OF THE OZARKS, Mo. — Crews worked for more than four hours to raise a Beechcraft B19 plane from the Lake, after it crashed into the water near Public Beach #2 on Wednesday, March 11, just after noon.

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After raising the plane to the surface, crews from Atlantis Dive and Dock Salvage, Lake Tow, and the Missouri State Highway Patrol towed it to the boat ramp at PB2. There they faced the challenge of how to flip the plane right-side-up, without seriously damaging it.

Ultimately, a crane was brought in, and a first attempt to lift the plane by hooking onto one of its tie-down hooks failed when the hook snapped off the plane, which was filled with water. The hook broke as the plane was completely vertical, nose-down, above the water, and it plunged back into the Lake.

A tow strap wrapped around the tail section allowed the crane to lift the plane, move it to the ramp, and set it down just before 5 p.m. It was then loaded onto a tow truck and taken to a hanger to be inspected by the Federal Aviation Administration.

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