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The Associated Press: A small plane that had taken off from Florida crashed Monday in the Bahamas, killing all four people on board, officials said.
The Cessna 340 crashed on approach to Freeport on the island of Grand
Bahama after taking off from Ormond Beach Municipal Airport near Daytona
Beach, Florida, said Assistant Commissioner Emrick Seymour of the Royal
Bahamas Police Force.
There were four men on board and all were killed in the crash, Seymour
said. Their identities and nationalities were not released pending
notification of their families.
The plane crashed into an area of shallow water and mangrove and it
occurred during low tide, delaying the initial search effort, Seymour
said. The Royal Bahamas Defence Force, the U.S. Coast Guard and local
volunteers took park in the search.
The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board was assisting the government of the Bahamas with the investigation.
Grand Bahama is about 70 miles off the coast of Florida.