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Update: Identifications made in Fire Island Inlet Accident

The two men who died in the accident were 51-year-old Cyril McLavin, of Fresh Meadows in Queens, and 72-year-old Andrew Messana, from Bayside, Queens.

The accident is under investigation.


What: Globe Swift en route from Spadaro Airport
Where: Moriches inlet, Fire Island
When: Oct 20, 2012 3 p.m.
Who: 2 aboard
Why: A Globe Swift plane that took off from Spadaro Airport had two aboard.

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Plane Crashes into Inlet beside Fire Island


What: Globe Swift en route from Spadaro Airport
Where: Moriches inlet, Fire Island
When: Oct 20, 2012 3 p.m.
Who: 2 aboard
Why: A Globe Swift plane that took off from Spadaro Airport had two aboard.

The plane was witnessed nosediving into Moriches inlet where it sank twenty to thirty feet deep, ending up upside down on a rock where divers took hours trying to retrieve the occupants.

Fishermen were the first on the scene, and tried to haul the plane up with a rope.Medics were on standby waiting for the divers to retrieval of the passengers, but the occupants were underwater for hours and presumed deceased.

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