Airplane crash in Gulf of Mexico leaves 2 dead, 1 missing
Venice (AP): A private airplane crashed into the Gulf of Mexico off the Florida coast Saturday night, with two people confirmed dead as authorities searched for a third person believed to have been on the flight, police said.
Authorities in Venice, Florida, initiated a search Sunday after 10 a.m. following a Federal Aviation Administration inquiry to the Venice Municipal Airport about an overdue single-engine Piper Cherokee that had not returned to its origin airport in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Around the same time, recreational boaters found the body of a woman floating about 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) west of the Venice shore, city of Venice spokesperson Lorraine Anderson said in a statement.
Divers from the Sarasota County Sheriff's Office located the wreckage of the rented airplane around 2 p.m. about a third of a mile offshore, directly west of the Venice airport, Anderson said.
Rescuers found a deceased girl in the plane's passenger area. A third person, believed to be a male who was the pilot or a passenger, remained missing Sunday, Anderson said.
The county sheriff's office, the U.S. Coast Guard, the Sarasota Police Department, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and the District 12 Medical Examiner's Office and the National Transportation Safety Board were involved in the investigation, Anderson said.
#BREAKING: The FAA and NTSB are investigating a plane crash in Venice. Officials say a single engine Piper PA-28 crashed in the Gulf of Mexico around 7:30 p.m. after taking off from Venice Municipal Airport last night. More updates to come. @FOX13News pic.twitter.com/MjH5Kb47hz
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Bus owner Saif Athrady murder: KCOCA case registered against six accused, says Udupi SP
Udupi: A case under Karnataka Control of Organised Crimes Act, 2000 (KCOCA), Section 3, was filed against six people under suspicion of their involvement in the alleged murder of Saifuddin Athrady (Saif), owner of private bus company MKMS at Kodavoor under the Malpe Police Station limits on September 27.
The arrested accused in the case are Muhammad Faisal Khan (27), resident of colony near Mission Compound in Udupi; Muhammad Sharief (37) of Karamballi; Abdul Shukur (43) of Krishnapura; Khan’s wife Ridha Shabana (27), and Mali Muhammad Siyan (31) are under judicial custody.
The primary accused in the murder, however, is reported to be absconding and hiding on foreign soil.
Udupi Superintendent of Police Hariram Shankar has said that the names of all six accused, including that of the missing, have been cited in the case registered under KCOCA Section 3.
