By msnbc.com staff
?ST. IGNACE, Mich. -? An executive with Amazon.com was one of two people killed when the single-engine plane they were flying in disappeared Saturday night in the Straits of Mackinac.
The Coast Guard's Cleveland office told WDIV-Detroit that?the plane failed to arrive as expected about 8 p.m. at Mackinac Island after leaving?St. Ignace in Michigan's northern Lower Peninsula. The flight is only about 4.5 miles and should have taken just six minutes.
The two men killed in the crash were Tom Phillips,?a general manager with Amazon Web Services, and?Joe Pann.?Both men are reportedly from northern Michigan. Phillips joined Amazon.com earlier this year, overseeing the company?s?Windows Elastic Compute Cloud service.
The Coast Guard said its crews and other federal, state and local agencies?had been ?involved in the search of northern Lake Huron, WDIV-Detroit reported. The plane was a Piper Saratoga.
The cause of the crash is under investigation.
Phillips, described as being in his late fifties, previously worked at Microsoft from 1992 to 2010, according to his profile on Linkedin.
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