MIAMI — The search for the pilot and passenger of a plane that was reported missing this week has been suspended after Monroe County sheriff’s divers found a section of the aircraft in the water off the Florida Keys.
The divers located the piece of the Vans RV-12 single engine plane about 17 miles due south of Sugarloaf Key, in the Lower Keys, said Capt. David Dipre of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, one of the several agencies involved in the search.
“Having located the debris, the search and rescue has now become a recovery effort for all agencies involved,” Dipre said in a statement Friday.
