MIAMI Dec 23, 2005 \uff97 The last missing victim of a fatal seaplane crash was found Friday floating in the Atlantic Ocean nine miles from where the plane went down south of Miami Beach, authorities said. <\/P><\/p>\n
A boater found Sergio Danguillecourt’s body about three miles off Key Biscayne, Miami Beach police said. <\/P><\/p>\n
Danguillecourt, 42, a member of the board of directors of Miami-based distiller Bacardi Ltd. and the great-great grandson of Bacardi’s founder was headed for Bimini with his wife when the Chalk’s Ocean Airways seaplane crashed Monday afternoon. All 20 passengers and crew aboard were killed.<\/P><\/p>\n
Also on Friday, divers wrapped up their search for small, remaining airplane pieces on the ocean floor, said National Transportation Safety Board spokesman Paul Schlamm. <\/P><\/p>\n
“They got almost 100 percent of what they were looking for,” he said. <\/P><\/p>\n
Most of the aircraft was recovered Wednesday in about 35 feet of water and was already being examined by NTSB experts. <\/P><\/p>\n
The Federal Aviation Administration said it was considering mandatory wing inspections of all seaplanes like the one that crashed. <\/P><\/p>\n
Although the precise cause of the crash has not been determined, the FAA said a preliminary investigation revealed stress fractures in the 58-year-old Grumman G-73 Turbine Mallard seaplane’s right wing support that could have played a key role. <\/P><\/p>\n
The agency said if it determines from the investigation that the potential for such stress fractures is inherent in other G-73 planes, it may require the inspections. <\/P><\/p>\n
There are about 25 other Grumman G-73 seaplanes in operation, FAA spokeswoman Laura Brown said. Chalk’s, which already had voluntarily grounded its four other G-73s, was the only commercial operator of the 1940s-era aircraft. The airline had refurbished its fleet in the 1980s including installation of more powerful engines to carry a greater number of passengers. <\/P><\/p>\n
A final determination of the crash’s cause is not expected for months.<\/P><\/p>\n
By CURT ANDERSON, Associated Press Writer<\/SMALL><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A boater found Sergio Danguillecourt’s body about three miles off Key Biscayne, Miami Beach police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}