On July 18, 1992, 34-year-old pilot and mechanic Thomas Lammon left Battle Creek, Michigan, in a single-engine Cessna bound for Beaver Island in Lake Michigan. His wife Peggy and friends Ray and Cathy Sears were aboard. The flight disappeared from radar about noon during final approach, roughly 35 miles from the island near the Leelanau Peninsula.

An extensive multi-agency search involving county and state authorities, the Civil Air Patrol and the U.S. Coast Guard produced no immediate sign of the plane or its four occupants. On August 3 a small aircraft tire and pieces of fiberglass—consistent in color with the missing Cessna—washed up near Good Hart; the tire was confirmed to be from an aircraft. No further wreckage or remains were recovered, and the search and investigation eventually wound down without a definitive explanation.

Tom Lammon worked as a mechanic at Steel Con; Peggy was a control operator at the Kalamazoo County Sheriff’s Department. Ray Sears was an electrician and Cathy worked at Davenport College. Does anyone have memories of that flight path, shoreline sightings in late July 1992, or other information that might still help explain what happened?