India, Sept. 8 -- The bodies of four family members from Miami were recovered after their small plane crashed near the Bahamas, according to the US Coast Guard and the family.

The family identified the four victims as 80-year-old Mario Lamar Sr, his 79-year-old wife Lili Lamar, and their two grandchildren, 28-year-old Sofia Sosa (also called Sofi Sosa) and 22-year-old Christian Sosa, as per reports.

Mario was flying the plane. The family called him "an experienced pilot with more than 40 years of flying experience," as per ABC News.

Silvia Larrieu, Lamar's niece, called him "a lifelong, very experienced pilot" and said the family had just spent "a wonderful long weekend together" with the grandchildren and two other grandchildren, as p...