Feds Investigate Everglades Plane Crash
BOYNTON BEACH (CBSMiami) – Federal investigators are looking into a small plane crash in the Everglades in which two people died over the weekend.
The single engine Cirrus SR-22 went down in the Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge west of Boynton Beach on Sunday around 6 p.m., according to the Sun-Sentinel. A pilot saw the plane go down and contacted an FAA tower in West Palm Beach.
Searchers using a helicopter and airboats found the wreckage about 12 miles southwest of the Palm Beach International Airport.
According to federal aviation records, the plane was from Orlando and registered to Mann Aviation which is in Geneva, Florida – about 25 miles northeast of Orlando.
Federal, state and local authorities worked together Monday to recover the plane's wreckage the bodies of the two people who died.
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