1 dead, 2 missing after a plane crash in the waters off Long Island

WESTHAMPTON BEACH, N.Y. – A small private plane carrying three people crashed into the ocean off the Long Island coast on Saturday, officials said. A body was found as a result of the 11-hour accident of the Piper PA-34, a twin engine about a mile from Quogue in the Hamptons.

Agencies such as the US Coast Guard, the New York National Air Guard and the Suffolk County Sheriff's Office responded to the accident.

"We are still looking for and recovering," said Christopher Isola, police chief of the village of Quogue, at a press conference held Saturday afternoon, according to Newsday. "The Coast Guard as well as other marine assets will continue in this effort."

The cause of the accident was not known, said Isola. The identity of the victim found was not determined immediately.

Officials said that people on the beach reported that the plane had been sprayed before it crashed. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) tweeted that it was going to conduct an investigation.

At that time, Tim Carbone was working at the nearby Oceanfront Surf Club and he told CBS New York that he thought it was a stunt plane.

"I was looking to see if I could find the plane and I could not see it, then" phoom ", it was done," he said. "It was as if the engine had been stopped immediately."

Alisa Sisic, a spokeswoman for the Connecticut Airport Authority, said the plane had departed the Connecticut 's Waterbury – Oxford airport on Saturday morning, before leaving the airport. Land at the Danbury Municipal Airport and then take off again.

The plane was heading to the Charleston Executive Airport in South Carolina, said Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Jim Peters. The FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board are going to investigate, he said.

This accident was the third fatal accident involving a small plane on Long Island this year.

A pilot died on May 30 when his collector's plane fell into a wooded area.

Four people were killed on June 2 when a twin – engine Navajo Piper crashed off Amagansett during a storm.