New details about what may have caused a deadly plane to crash over Lake Michigan. 6 News has learned that a steering system failure may have led to that crash. It killed all six members of an organ-transplant team from the University of Michigan, one of them a flight instructor at Jackson Community College. The pilot did signal an emergency shortly after taking off from Milwaukee, but six minutes later, the plane plunged into the water. Divers searched the area all afternoon, mapping the wreckage and bringing up debris for investigators.
         Capt. Bruce Jones, U.S. Coast Guard: "We expect conditions to calm tonight and searching to being promptly tomorrow morning. In the meantime, CG and local law enforcement personnel are walking the shoreline and piers in the area and south where they have recovered additional aircraft wreckage." The transplant team headed to Michigan where a patient was waiting for an organ donation. That patient is in critical condition. In Livingston County, EMS workers there are reacting to those crash details and coping with the loss of some of their own. The crew near Howell's airport works very closely with the U of M survival flights, especially with the landing pad for that helicopter service located right across the street from their EMS station. The director there says they work hand in hand with paramedics and nurses throughout the year and feel this loss greatly.
          Jeff Boyd, Director of EMS in Livingston Co.: "It's tragic at any time to lose anybody, but you look at those and they are almost like co-workers to us, we work very close to them we see them on scene and it is just like part of the family." Condolences for the victims are also coming in from all over the country via the internet. An a section of the U of M health system website, countless people have posted their thoughts and prayers for everyone involved in the tragedy, showing what a tight knit group the organ transplant community really is. Here locally, the executive director of "gift of life Michigan" adds, "every day they went to work, and every time they boarded a plane, it was with one goal in mind- to save someone's life. All of us were united in the desire to give new life to others. We mourn their loss and offer our heartfelt condolences to their families and friends."