James Edwin Jamie Mitchum, Jr., 58, a pilot, boater and owner of Mitchum’s Construction, Inc., vanished after a flight that disappeared from radar on October 25, 2018. He and four others left Robert F. Swinnie Airport in Andrews, South Carolina, bound for Governor’s Harbour Airport in the Bahamas in a twin-engine Piper PA-31. About 110 miles east of Charleston, the pilot made a garbled distress transmission and, at approximately 11:33 a.m., the aircraft disappeared from radar.

The United States Coast Guard conducted a large search covering thousands of square miles with multiple aircraft and cutters but found no wreckage or survivors. Mitchum was declared lost at sea; the final moments suggest a catastrophic in-flight event, but no specific cause has been established.

If anyone was on or near the Atlantic flight path that morning, or has information about the aircraft’s last known position, please come forward.