HOMESTEAD — A group that’s spent nearly 20 years trying to find the wreckage of a World War II-era bomber that crashed into the Monongahela River is seeking permission to dredge the waterway.

The B-25 Recovery Group has asked the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for permission to dig beneath the river near the Homestead Grays Bridge.

The plane, a bomber converted to a training aircraft, was flying from Nevada to Harrisburg when it ran out of fuel and ditched in the river on Jan. 31, 1956. The fate of the wreckage has never been publicized.