The alpinist Stipe Bozic and his team joined in the search for the missing Cessna, which disappeared on Thursday at around 3:45pm over Velebit mountain. In a telephone conversation with us, he said that they are ready and that they are heading towards Velebit. Despite the poor weather, he believes that the result will be positive.

“The teams are ready and we are leaving. We will start from the south side of Velebit and if needed we will search for days, until we find them. It is cloudy up there, the visibility is poor and there is a strong wind, but I believe that we will find them” said Stipe Bozic.

In August 2008, Stipe Bozic participated in saving a Polish alpinist on Omis’ Dinara mountain. That took place one month after Bozic’s son and daughter-in-law died in a car crash in Drvenik. Josko Bozic was the head of the Split station of the Croatian mountain rescue service.

The search headquarters, founded in Zadar’s police headquarters, checks all of the information that can be gathered from witnesses, however, it is mainly the impressions from certain individuals.

Remember, the Cessna aircraft was carrying four pilots, and was flying from Zagreb towards Zadar, and disappeared on Thursday afternoon on Velebit. Also participating in the search are 35 members of the Croatian mountain rescue service and members of the special police.

Even though the weather conditions do not allow searching from the air, and landmines are hampering the searching of certain terrain, helicopters are prepared to fly and could take off if the weather allows it.

Take a look at the photo gallery: Stipe Bozic Joins Search For Missing Plane.