Daytona Beach couple missing after plane crash

A Daytona Beach couple is missing after their plane crashed into the ocean, during a trip back home from the Bahamas on Monday.

The U.S. Coast Guard said it found some wreckage while searching for survivors Tuesday morning.

The couple owns an auto body business in Sanford, WFTV learned.

According to a friend, they work Monday through Friday and fly to a second home in the Bahamas almost every weekend.

The couple reportedly left their home in the Bahamas on Monday around noon, after adjusting their flight plan because of bad weather in the area.

Not long after that, the Federal Aviation Administration notified the Coast Guard that they'd lost communication with a plane carrying two passengers on board.

A search was mounted and a helicopter crew located a debris field along the route that Al and Kathleen Van Nimwegen would have been taking from Marsh Island in Abaco to the Spruce Creek fly-in community where they lived near Daytona Beach.

A friend in the Bahamas WFTV spoke with Monday night said he believed they were flying a relative's plane, but it's a route they've flown many times before.

"They've been doing it every weekend ever since I've known them. They might miss the odd weekend, but generally it's every weekend," said friend Keith Rogers. "No one has heard from them and there was a downed plane, and they did leave the island at noon today, so I guess it's pretty much a given that they are the victims of the crash."

The Coast Guard has not confirmed any deaths or the make of the plane, but friends from the Bahamas said they fear the worst.