Miami Plane Crash

A portion of the wing of a Chalk's Ocean Airways plane is shown Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2005, off Miami Beach, Fla. The seaplane crashed Monday killing all on board.

Federal officials prepare to head to the site where a seaplane carrying 20 people crashed off Miami Beach, Fla., Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2005. Investigators hope to haul up the fuselage of a sunken seaplane Tuesday to find why it broke apart and plunged into the ocean just off Miami Beach, killing all 20 people on board, including three infants.

This photo, taken with a cell phone camera, captures the smoke trail from a Chalk's Ocean Airways plane as it drops into the ocean Monday, Dec. 19, 2005, next to Miami Beach. A seaplane belonging to the company carrying 20 people crashed off Miami Beach within sight of the city's high-rises Monday, killing everyone on board.

Scuba divers and rescuers search the waters after a seaplane carrying 20 people crashed off Miami Beach, Fla., Monday, Dec. 19, 2005. The Chalk's Ocean Airways plane - a twin-engine Grumman G-73T Turbine Mallard - went down around 2:30 p.m. after taking off from Miami for the island of Bimini in the Bahamas. The plane crashed in a narrow channel used by cruise ships. The Coast Guard said there were no survivors.

Authorities say there were no survivors from the crash of a seaplane in the water off Miami Beach, Monday, Dec. 19, 2005. The plane went down around 2:30 p.m., shortly after takeoff on a flight from Miami to Bimini in the Bahamas.

U.S. Coast Guard and local authorities search the waters after a seaplane carrying 20 people crashed off Miami Beach, Fla., Monday, Dec. 19, 2005. The plane crashed in a narrow channel used by cruise ships. Because of witness reports of an explosion before the plane went down, the FBI sent agents to assist in the investigation, but there was no immediate indication of terrorism or sabotage.

A Miami Beach, Fla., police car sits in front of the Chalk's Ocean Airways building, Monday, Dec. 19, 2005, on Watson Island in Miami Beach, Fla. A seaplane belonging to the company carrying 20 people crashed off Miami Beach within sight of the city's high-rises Monday afternoon.

The U.S. Coast Guard and local officials search the waters after a propeller-driven seaplane carrying 20 people crashed off Miami Beach, Fla., within sight of the city's high-rises Monday, Dec. 19, 2005. Witnesses said the plane blew apart in the air.

Rescue workers wheel a stretcher along a pier at the Miami Beach Coast Guard station with a body that was recovered from the scene of a Chalk's Airways plane that crashed off Miami Beach, Fla. Monday, Dec. 19, 2005. The Coast Guard said everyone on board died.

Onlookers stand behind crime scene tape near where a Chalk's Ocean Airways plane crashed into the ocean off Miami Beach, Fla., Monday, Dec. 19, 2005. The plane -- a twin-engine Grumman G-73T Turbine Mallard -- went down around 2:30 p.m. after taking off from Miami for the island of Bimini in the Bahamas, crashing in a narrow channel used by cruise ships, the Federal Aviation Administration said.

Police and rescue officials work in a secure area of Miami Beach where a Chalk's Ocean Airways plane crashed off Miami Beach, Fla., Monday, Dec. 19, 2005. Thepropeller-driven seaplane went down around 2:30 p.m. after taking off from Miami for the island of Bimini in the Bahamas, crashing in a narrow channel used by cruise ships, the Federal Aviation Administration said.