BREAKING: Coast Guard searching for missing plane following 'unresponsive pilot' reports

A MAJOR search and rescue operation is on after a flight from Oklahoma City to Texas vanished shortly after take-off.

By Anders Anglesey /

The aircraft went missing on earlier today after it departed from Wiley Post Airport for Georgetown Municipal Airport.

US Coast Guard officials are now looking for the aircraft in the Gulf of Mexico following reports of a crash due to an unresponsive pilot. 

The pilot was due to land the SR22T model aircraft at Georgetown, but he continued towards the coast.

Traffic control officers, at this point, declared the pilot was unresponsive. 

The aircraft disappeared on Wednesday GETTY

MISSING: The aircraft disappeared on Wednesday

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    The US Coast Guard said in a statement: “We are getting ready to send out an aircraft to search the waters off Freeport, Texas.

    “Our report shows 150 nautical miles off Freeport.”

    It is not currently known how many people were on-board.

    The plane is registered to Abide Aviation LLC and is understood to be a small aircraft that can seat five people.

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      “We are getting ready to send out an aircraft to search the waters off”

      US Coast Guard

      Its disappearance will spark memories of the chilling case of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 that shocked the world.

      Conspiracy surrounds the vanishing of the Boeing 777, which was flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing in March 2014.

      It disappeared without a trace over the Indian Ocean, most theories suggest the plane was in “ghost flight” when it crashed, meaning the pilots and passengers were already dead or incapacitated.

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