{"id":156757,"date":"2026-02-16T01:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T01:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/156757\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T01:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T01:24:08","slug":"plane-crashes-into-water-in-florida-everglades-what-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/156757\/","title":{"rendered":"Plane crashes into water in Florida Everglades, what to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Federal officials were investigating a plane crash Feb. 15 into the Florida Everglades.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.naplesnews.com\/story\/money\/business\/local\/2026\/02\/13\/what-did-naples-florida-airport-move-study-determine-in-2025\/88223277007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Federal Aviation Administration;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Federal Aviation Administration<\/a> was on scene and is the primary agency on the investigation, said Adam Fisher, a Collier County Sheriff&#8217;s Office spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Someone called at 12:49 p.m. Feb. 15 when the person saw a plane in the water about five miles west of Everglades City in the Ten Thousand Islands area, Fisher said in an email.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The person did not see it crash and only saw the plane in the water, he said. The Collier Sheriff&#8217;s marine unit and aviation helicopter responded and found two patients and their conditions were unconfirmed, Fisher said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article originally appeared on Naples Daily News: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.naplesnews.com\/story\/news\/local\/2026\/02\/15\/what-to-know-about-florida-everglades-plane-crash-into-water\/88695752007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:What to know about Florida Everglades plane crash into water;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">What to know about Florida Everglades plane crash into water<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Federal officials were investigating a plane crash Feb. 15 into the Florida Everglades. The Federal Aviation Administration was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75205,1845,75207,75206,7811,14856,28,6765,30,29,3118],"class_list":{"0":"post-156757","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-adam-fisher","9":"tag-collier-county-sheriff","10":"tag-collier-sheriff","11":"tag-everglades-city","12":"tag-federal-aviation-administration","13":"tag-federal-officials","14":"tag-florida","15":"tag-florida-everglades","16":"tag-florida-headlines","17":"tag-florida-news","18":"tag-plane-crash"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}