More than two weeks after a small plane carrying two people crashed in the Gulf of Mexico off Homosassa, one of the victim's bodies has been identified.
Citrus County deputies learned this afternoon that Darien Peckham, 35, of Tampa, died in the plane crash, deputies say. He was identified using his and his mother's DNA.
Peckham's family was notified about the results.
The aircraft carrying Peckham 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's body was found Dec. 8.
A second body was recovered Thursday morning by recreational boaters about 34 miles from Homosassa. The Coast Guard recovered the body, which was taken to the Medical Examiner's Office in Leesburg. It has not been positively identified.
Peckham, 35, was a nuclear medicine technologist from Harbour Island.
Schlitt, 28, works for Boos Development Group.
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