4 killed in apparent mid-air collision over Everglades

[TCAS]

Investigators Monday will resume their search for the bodies of four people who died when two flight-school planes collided over the Everglades in West Broward, raining debris on a stretch of marshland reachable only by airboats and swamp buggies.

The planes -- a single-engine Cessna and a twin-engine Piper -- slammed into each other on a clear Saturday afternoon in airspace where South Florida flight instructors routinely take students to practice.

Killed: Stuart Brown, a cautious flight instructor who wanted to fly for Air Jamaica; Bryan Sax, a coffee-shop owner from Colorado who started his own flight school; and Edson Jefferson, a certified pilot from Miramar.

The fourth victim had not been identified Sunday night.

Investigators will scour the wreckage of the Cessna 172, which took off from North Perry Airport in Pembroke Pines, and the Piper PA-44 Seminole, which began its flight at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.

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