Never again will Sabrina Dean braid her cousins' hair. Never again will her husband, Barto, crack jokes with his nephew, 16-year-old Adrian Jones.

The couple and their infant daughter died Monday when a Chalk's Ocean Airways plane carrying 20 people crashed into the water near Miami Beach. Nineteen bodies had been recovered as of Tuesday morning.

Boats and helicopters searched the waters where the plane went down near Government Cut channel, used by ships traveling from the Atlantic to the Port of Miami. Bodies encased in black bags were taken from rescue crafts.

Throughout the evening, shocked relatives streamed to the Miami Beach Police Department to learn details of the crash and meet with grief counselors and clergymen. Some, like Jones, sat on the steps outside, trying to absorb the loss.

Bahamas officials say at least 11 passengers on the Bimini-bound Grumman G-73T Turbine Mallard propeller plane were from the island with a population of 1,800. A number of the passengers were related or were friends, several family members said. Many were returning home after Christmas shopping jaunts.

Dean had come to Miami to shop, said her cousin, Lee King, 28, of Fort Lauderdale. After several days, the family was returning home, their bags laden with packages.

Donald Smith, a dock master in South Florida for 27 years before moving to Bimini, had made a brief trip to watch his granddaughter graduate from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, said his son, Cletis Smith.

"I'm being cheerful because my father is a very cheerful man," Smith said, as family members came up the steps to greet him. At times, his voice failed.

About a third of the 1,000-member congregation at A Place Called Hope in Hollywood is from Bimini, said Bishop Duane Swilley, who came to the police station to comfort mourners.

Many family members were ushered from the police department to a hotel late Monday, but others stayed behind, lingering on the steps or at the lighted entrance to the station.

"It seems like the whole island is gone. I spoke to my brother over there. Everybody's really hurting," said Peter Francis, 39, who lost two family members.

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