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Body May Be Second Plane Crash Victim

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The Tampa Tribune

Published: December 19, 2008

TAMPA - More than two weeks after a small plane carrying two people crashed in the Gulf of Mexico off Homosassa, a second body has been recovered.

The body was found Thursday morning by recreational boaters about 34 miles from Homosassa, the Citrus County Sheriff's Office said. The Coast Guard recovered the body, which has been taken to the medical examiner's office in Leesburg. The first body was found Dec. 8.

The aircraft carrying Darien Peckham of Tampa and Zachary Schlitt of West Palm Beach crashed into the Gulf on Nov. 30 during a flight from Tallahassee to Vandenberg Airport east of Tampa.

Peckham, 35, is a nuclear medicine technologist from Harbour Island. Schlitt, 28, works for Boos Development Group.
DNA testing is needed to make positive identifications, deputies say.

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