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| **UPDATE** Coast Guard continues search for 2 after plane crashes in Gulf |
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Media note: There is no video available of this case. YANKEETOWN, Fla. - The Coast Guard is continuing its search for two people in the water after a private aircraft crashed in the Gulf of Mexico at about 7:30 p.m. Sunday, 14-miles west of Yankeetown, Fla., Darien Peckham, 35, hometown unknown, and Zachary Schlitt, 28, hometown unknown, are reported to have been flying from Tallahassee, Fla., to Vandenberg Airport in Tampa, Fla., when their twin-engine, fixed-wing aircraft crashed into the Gulf. Rescue boat crews from Coast Guard Station Yankeetown and Coast Guard Station Sand Key, in Clearwater, Fla., along with an HH-60 Jayhawk rescue-helicopter crew and an HC-130 Hercules search-plane crew, both from Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater, are searching the water for Peckham and Schlitt. Please check www.D7PublicAffairs.com for updates.
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