Two people are dead, including a child, and one person is missing after a plane crashed in the Gulf of Mexico over the weekend, police in Venice, Florida, said.
The FAA said in a statement that the plane had departed the Venice Municipal Airport at around 7:30 p.m. Saturday and was believed to have had three people onboard.
Search and rescue efforts on Sunday after a plane crashed in the Gulf of Mexico.
Venice Police DepartmentHours later, at around 2 p.m. the wreckage of the missing Piper Cherokee was located around 1/3 of a mile west offshore, directly west of the Venice Municipal Airport, police said.
Police did not share the identity of the missing person, or of the female and child found dead.