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DNA Tests To Show Whether Body Found In Gulf Is Flier
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Published: December 10, 2008
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The identity of a person's remains found in the Gulf of Mexico this week has not been established, and it will require DNA testing to officially determine, according to the Citrus County Sheriff's Office today.
An aircraft carrying Darien Peckham of Tampa and Zachary Schlitt of West Palm Beach crashed into the Gulf on Nov. 30.
The two men were on a flight from Tallahassee to Vandenberg Airport in Tampa when their small aircraft crashed about 20 miles southwest of Yankeetown, which is in Levy County. The Coast Guard suspended its search for the men, but the body was later found by a boater, a sheriff's office spokeswoman said.
Peckham, 35, is a nuclear medicine technologist from Harbour Island. Schlitt, 28, works for Boos Development Group.
DNA testing could take weeks, sheriff's spokeswoman Gail Tierney said.
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