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By Michael Christie MIAMI (Reuters) - U.S. federal investigators hoped to raise the fuselage of a seaplane from the seabed on Tuesday and reopen the Port of Miami to cruise ships a day after the aircraft crashed in flames, killing at least 19. In the Bahamian island of Bimini, where most of the people on board the ill-fated Chalk's Ocean Airways seaplane lived, residents huddled together in small groups, weeping, as they mourned the loss of loved ones. The 58-year-old twin-engined...

By Michael Christie MIAMI (Reuters) - U.S. federal investigators hoped to raise the fuselage of a seaplane from the seabed on Tuesday and reopen the Port of Miami to cruise ships a day after the aircraft crashed in flames, killing at least 19. In the Bahamian island of Bimini, where most of the people on board the ill-fated Chalk's Ocean Airways seaplane lived, residents huddled together in small groups, weeping, as they mourned the loss of loved ones. The 58-year-old twin-engined...