Volusia County Sheriff: Small plane spirals into ocean off New Smyrna Beach; no survivors or bodies found
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UPDATED at 11:10 p.m.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- A single-engine Cessna carrying two people, "went straight down" into the ocean off New Smyrna Beach tonight, the Federal Aviation Administration confirmed.
FAA pokeswoman Kathleen Bergen said the Cessna 172 Skyhawk flew out of Sarasota and was on its way to Daytona Beach International Airport when it crashed off New Smyrna Beach.
No survivors were found following the 6:30 p.m. incident with eyewitnesses reporting "the plane went spiraling down into the ocean several yards from the shore, Sheriff's spokeswoman Priscilla Ress confirmed for NSBNews.Net.
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Photo by Dale Smith / Divers with the Volusia County Sheriff's Office recovered the two bodies in the cabin of a small plane that crashed Wednesday night in the ocean about 200 yards from the New Smyrna Beach shoreline.