Palm Beach County helicopter pilot missing on flight to Georgia

NORTHERN PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. - Bob Munro says he's been awake since 2:30 Thursday morning waiting for his phone to ring with information about his missing friend Adam Reeves.

"Well I'm hoping they find him alive," he said.

Munro says he spoke to Reeves just before Reeves left for Georgia Monday morning. He says Reeves left his Jupiter home and headed to the North County Airport to fly to a North Georgia resort with a friend.

"It was a journey for him...something new to do," said Munro.

Munro says Reeves has between 150 and 200 hours of flying under his belt. He was piloting a helicopter and expected to arrive in Georgia at 5 p.m. but never did.

Reeves' wife is not home but neighbors say his daughter is. They spoke with her and she says all she can do right now is wait.

Reeves stopped at a municipal airport in Madison, Georgia to refuel and has been missing ever since.

"He may have been in some area he's not used to flying in with mountains and what not, but he's a very smart guy," said Munro.

Search planes from the Georgia Civil Air Patrol spent several hours Wednesday looking for the missing helicopter. 

“We’re doing an air search and a ground search, and by process of elimination, we have pinpointed some areas,” Paige Joyner a spokesman for the Civil Air Patrol, told the Atlanta Journal Constitution on Thursday.