A Florida couple and their grandchildren vanished after their plane crashed while they were returning from their Bahamas vacation home

A desperate search for a Florida couple and their grandchildren is underway after their plane crashed Monday on the way home from a Bahamas vacation.

Bahamian authorities received a report that a five-seater PA-34 Piper aircraft en route to Opa-locka, Florida, had plummeted into the water 13 miles west of Andros Island at 2:20 p.m. on Monday, according to the Royal Bahamas Police Force.

The small private plane, which departed from Great Harbor Cay that morning, was carrying pilot Mario Lamar, 80, his wife Lili Lamar, 79, and two of their grandchildren, 28-year-old Sofia Sosa and 22-year-old Christian Sosa, their heartbroken family told the Miami Herald.

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The Miami couple and their grandkids spent Labor Day weekend watching the sunset at their home in Great Harbor Cay before tragedy struck.

“They’ve spent their whole life going there. That’s like their second home,” Silvia Larrieu, a niece of Mario and Lili, told the outlet. “They were coming home.”