Rescue teams have found the bodies of a woman and a female juvenile after a Florida plane crashed in the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday evening. The plane was recovered earlier on Monday. A 42-year-old man is still missing.
The plane, a single-engine Piper Cherokee, departed from Venice Municipal Airport in Florida around 7:30 p.m. local time on Saturday, according to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). It crashed around 2.5 miles west of the Venice Fishing Pier, according to the local municipality.
The Venice Police Department (VPD) was contacted by the FAA after the plane never reached its planned destination.
Sunday afternoon, it was confirmed that the plane’s wreckage was found approximately one-third of a mile west offshore, and west of Venice Municipal Airport. At approximately the same time, a female body was found floating in the Gulf around 2.5 miles west of Venice beach….