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Search Group Helps Look For Missing Pilots

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The private search organization that helped look for missing toddler Caylee Anthony in Orlando says it's scanning the Gulf of Mexico for two pilots whose aircraft went missing.

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Published: December 6, 2008

Tampa - The private search organization that helped look for missing toddler Caylee Anthony in Orlando says it's scanning the Gulf of Mexico for two pilots whose aircraft went missing Sunday.

Texas EquuSearch, a non-profit group that has been in operation eight years, said it began using special scanning equipment Wednesday to try to locate signs of the aircraft carrying Darien Peckham of Tampa and Zachary Schlitt of West Palm Beach.

The two men were on a flight from Tallahassee to Vandenberg Airport in Tampa Nov. 30 when their small aircraft crashed at 6:45 p.m. about 20 miles southwest of Yankeetown in Levy County.

The Coast Guard suspended its search for the men Tuesday evening.

In a statement, the search group said it was working together with the families of the missing men and with local authorities.

Peckham, 35, is a nuclear medicine technologist from Harbour Island. Schlitt, 28, works for Boos Development Group..

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