The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating Tuesday's small plane crash off Pasco County in the Gulf of Mexico that killed former Major League Baseball pitcher Roy Halladay. 

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An NTSB spokeswoman said during a Wednesday afternoon news conference that a report would likely be available in seven to 10 days but that the investigation could take up to two years.

The plane wreckage was brought to shore Wednesday. The spokeswoman said anyone with video of the incident is asked to call authorities.

The Pasco Sheriff's Office Marine Unit responded to the small aircraft down in the Gulf, north of Bailey's Bluff in Holiday, just after noon Tuesday.

Sheriff Chris Nocco said the plane was an ICON A-5, single-engine plane. 

In one of many enthusiastic tweets about the plane, Halladay said it felt "like flying a fighter jet." He had about 700 flight hours, according to the NTSB spokeswoman.

Rolled out in 2014, the A5 is an amphibious aircraft meant to be treated like an ATV, a piece of weekend recreational gear with folding wings that can easily be towed on a trailer to a lake where it can take off from the water.

In other tweets, Halladay said he had dreamed about owning one of the small sport planes, and said in video on the company's website that he had to talk his wife into letting him get one. The son of a corporate pilot, Halladay had been forbidden to take up aviation until after his retirement in 2014.

Halladay, the 40-year-old former Blue Jays and Phillies pitcher, had been the proud owner for less than a month of his ICON A5, and was among the first to fly it, with only about 20 in existence, according the website for ICON Aviation.

Authorities said there were no calls for help beforehand and that Halladay was the only one on board the aircraft. 

Witnesses to Tuesday's crash described the plane flying low.

"From my house to the top of the trees, (the plane) went past a little ways over the trees, hung a left and then tilted to the left into the water," Michael Lennon said.

Leslie Southard said smoke was coming from the engine.

"(It was) flying really low, and you could just tell it was going down," she said of the plane.

Nocco called Halladay and down to Earth person and a friend of the department. The sheriff said the former all-star pitcher was passionate about his family, baseball, flying and helping people. 

"If you dropped something, he'd bend down to pick it up," Nocco said. "If you were in need, Roy would say 'Hey, how can I help you?' "

Halladay, 40, won 203 games in his 16-year career, losing 105. He won the Cy Young Award in 2003 with the Toronto Blue Jays.

After 12 years with the Blue Jays, Halladay spent his final four seasons with the Phillies. 

Halladay made his Major League debut in 1998 with Toronto at the age of 21. 

He was drafted by the Blue Jays in 1995 and was from Denver, Colorado.

Three times, he won at least 20 games in a season, and he also had a 19-win campaign as well.

He was a member of the Philadelphia Phillies' National League East-winning teams in 2010 and 2011, throwing a no-hitter in the 2010 playoffs against the Cincinnati Reds.

In a prepared statement, the Phillies said: "We are numb over the very tragic news about Roy Halladay's untimely death. It is with the heaviest of hearts that we pass along our condolences to Brandy, Ryan and Braden."

Information from the Associated Press was used in this report.