The Coast Guard has found the body of a Birmingham neurosurgeon who was killed in a plane crash off the coast of Miramar Beach, Florida.
Friends tell News 5 that Dr. Evan Zeiger left Tuscaloosa this morning in his World War II era stunt plane (North American SNJ-6). They say Zeiger was flying in a formation with several other planes when he crashed into the Gulf of Mexico.
The pilots flying with Zeiger circled for more than an hour but found no sign of him.
Coast Guard Sector Mobile received a call about the crash from the Walton County Sheriff's Office at 12:45 p.m. Members of the Coast Guard, Florida Fish and Wildlife, and the Walton County Sheriff's Office searched for Zeiger.
Crews eventually found the bodies of Zeiger and his passenger, and the wreckage in water 50 feet deep.
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