Daniel A. Poulos, 40, vanished on December 31, 1986 while piloting a Cessna 310R, tail number N5462J, on a flight from Jamestown to Buffalo, New York. Contact with the aircraft was lost at about 6:00 PM and Poulos was last seen near Evans, New York. He was wearing a navy blue front-zip jacket, a white shirt with a plaid overshirt, navy blue pants, and athletic socks.

Search efforts focused on Lake Erie and the surrounding shoreline. The prevailing theory is that the plane crashed into the cold waters of the lake, but no definitive wreckage or remains were recovered immediately and the precise circumstances remain unresolved. The Erie County Sheriff’s Office logged the incident, and Poulos’s family was left without closure.

Does anyone have memories of that flight path, sightings from the Evans area that night, or information about searches conducted after the disappearance?