The 30-year-old private pilot presumed dead aboard a Cessna Skyhawk that plunged into Lake Pontchartrain was an expectant father and Navy officer stationed in Gulfport.

The U.S. Navy has confirmed the identity of Lt. David Michael Jahn with permission from his family. The U.S. Coast Guard on Wednesday afternoon suspended a search for Jahn and the flight instructor aboard the plane, Taylor Dickey, who was also 30 years old.

Recovery operations continued, with the United Cajun Navy posting Saturday evening on Facebook that it had located “a large part of the aircraft.” The post said that sonar teams, divers and Team Texas K9 units worked to pinpoint the site.

Jahn and Dickey were on a training flight from Gulfport to New Orleans in a single-engine Cessna from Apollo Flight Training an

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