The pilot of a small plane who was killed when the aircraft crashed off Long Island on Saturday had also owned two other planes involved in crashes in recent years, one of them fatal, according to government records and accident reports.

The body of the pilot, Munidat “Raj” Persaud, was identified on Sunday by the New York State Police. Later Sunday, the Coast Guard recovered the bodies of two other people who were on board when the plane went down in the Atlantic Ocean near the village of Quogue.

The two passengers on the aircraft, a twin-engine Piper PA-34 flying from Connecticut to Charleston, S.C., were not immediately identified.

Part of the wreckage was found on Saturday, and the fuselage was located Sunday afternoon. A Coast Guard spokesman, Petty Officer Steve Strohmaier, said efforts were being made to bring it to the surface.