The body of a student pilot was found next to a horrific airplane crash in the Florida Everglades on Wednesday. 

According to ABC Local 10, Miami-Dade police Detective Argemis Colome said Miami-Dade Fire Rescue found the wreckage at about 9:30 p.m. Local 10’s sky team captured the body in a murky swamp with an alligator wading next to it. 

Mark Ukaere was later identified as the student pilot who took the plane out on Saturday night.

"I don't want to believe that this thing has happened," roommate Patrick Shedrack told Local 10. "I don't want to believe that."

Shedrack said he realized something was wrong when Ukaere left Saturday from Miami Executive Airport and never made it to church the next day.

"All he does is go to his college, [come] back home [and] on Sundays, church. That's all," Shedrack said.

Ukaere was a student at Dean International Flight Training & Aircraft Rentals, a Miami-based flight school.

The flight school's owner, Robert Dean, said Ukaere was not authorized to take a solo flight in the evening.

"Every time anybody flies in the evening, they must fly with another pilot," Dean told Local 10.

Dean said he believes the pilot suffered from spatial disorientation as he flew in pitch darkness over the Everglades.

The FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board were investigating the cause of the crash.