By Associated Press - Sunday, October 14, 2018

WESTHAMPTON BEACH, N.Y. (AP) - Authorities have recovered the remaining two bodies from a small plane that crashed into the ocean waters off of Long Island, killing all three people aboard.

The Coast Guard said divers located the bodies on Sunday after finding the aircraft wreckage in about 20 feet of water about a mile south of Quogue, New York, in the Hamptons. Their identities have not yet been released.

The first body, identified as 41-year-old Raj Persaud, of Waterbury, Connecticut, was found on Saturday.



The three were in a twin-engine Piper PA-34 that left Connecticut Saturday morning and was heading to South Carolina when it crashed.

The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board are investigating.

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