LOS ANGELES -- Divers searching in the water off Southern California found human remains and debris on Sunday from the wreckage of a midair collision involving two small planes.
They made the discovery about 2 miles off the Port of Los Angeles on the third day of the search, Los Angeles County sheriff's Deputy Juanita Navarro said.
Investigators from the coroner's office will try to identify the remains, and divers plan to continue looking for more evidence at daybreak today, she said.
A search was launched Friday after a plane piloted by a 72-year-old woman was seen on radar colliding with a craft carrying men ages 61 and 81 off San Pedro, just outside Los Angeles Harbor.
Authorities have not released any identities, but the woman's husband identified her as Mary Falstrom.
Some debris from a plane carrying two men, including a pilot's logbook, was quickly found. But there was no sign of Falstrom or her plane.
The plane carrying the men was a Beech 35 Bonanza and the second was a Citabria, said Allen Kenitzer, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration. Falstrom said his wife flew a Super Decathlon, an aerobatic plane by the same maker of the Citabria.
Authorities said both pilots were experienced and all three people lived in the area.
Information for this article was contributed by Christopher Weber of The Associated Press.
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