Searchers on Sunday found the wreckage of a single-engine chartered plane that crashed in northern Michigan, killing the two men on board, the U.S. Coast Guard said.

A Michigan State Police statement Sunday night identified the men as Thomas Phillips, 52, with homes in Kirkland, Wash., and Mackinac Island, and Joseph Pann Jr., 29, of St. Ignace.

The plane left an airfield in the eastern Upper Peninsula on Saturday night, bound for Mackinac Island in the Straits Mackinac.

"The men departed St. Ignace en route to Mackinac Island that evening in a Piper Saratoga and were expected to arrive at about 8 p.m.," the Coast Guard said in a statement from its regional office in Cleveland. "The flight is only about 4.5 miles and should have taken only about six minutes."

First word of the plane's disappearance came a couple hours later. Search and rescue controllers at Coast Guard Sector Sault Ste. Marie were contacted by a Michigan State Police 911 dispatcher at 10:07 p.m. Saturday. A concerned family member called the dispatcher, the Coast Guard said.

The Coast Guard and other federal, state and local agencies took part in the search using aircraft and ships. Searchers also used location information for a cellphone that belonged to one of the men on the plane. There was no reported distress call.

Searchers found the wreckage Sunday afternoon on the Lake Huron shore, about three miles north of St. Ignace.

Investigators didn't have any immediate indication of what caused the crash. State police said investigators with the Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board were expected to arrive Monday and start their onsite probe.

The plane was a Piper, fixed-wing, single-engine PA-32-260 model, according to FAA records. It was built in 1975 and owned by the St. Ignace-based charter company Great Lakes Air Inc., the records said.

Phone calls made to the company were not immediately returned to The Associated Press on Sunday.