Plane found at bottom of California lake is from decades-old wreck — but not 1965 crash

A small plane recently spotted by sonar at the bottom of a Northern California lake is not the wreck of an aircraft that disappeared into the water after a midair collision in 1965, authorities said Wednesday.

The possibility arose last week when wreckage was spotted by technicians testing sonar equipment at Folsom Lake. Seafloor Systems was able to take clear images of the plane's tail and propeller because California's severe drought has made the lake's water level low.  Dive team sergeants from the Placer and El Dorado county sheriff's offices went out with the technicians to obtain better images and they determined it is an airplane that crashed in 1986, the Placer County Sheriff's Office said.