{"id":268436,"date":"2026-05-12T19:58:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T19:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/268436\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T19:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T19:58:07","slug":"10-rescued-after-small-plane-crashes-off-florida-coast-near-vero-beach-coast-guard-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/268436\/","title":{"rendered":"10 rescued after small plane crashes off Florida coast near Vero Beach, Coast Guard says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ten people were rescued Tuesday after a small aircraft crashed about 50 miles off the coast of Vero Beach, Florida, according to the U.S. Coast Guard and the Federal Aviation Administration.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Coast Guard Southeast said in <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/USCGSoutheast\/status\/2054275564207210944\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">a social media post<\/a> at 3 p.m. that a Coast Guard aircraft was launched to search for the downed plane after reports of the crash.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Reportedly, all 10 people are accounted for &amp; are being brought to EMS for further eval,&#8221; the Coast Guard said on X. Officials added that the cause of the crash remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The FAA said the aircraft was a Beechcraft BE30 that crashed into the ocean about 50 miles east of Vero Beach Regional Airport around 12:05 p.m. Tuesday. According to the FAA, the flight departed from Marsh Harbour Airport and was headed to Grand Bahama International Airport. Ten people were confirmed on board.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/cbsmiami-florida-plane-crash-1.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"cbsmiami-florida-plane-crash-1.jpg \" height=\"351\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Ten people were rescued after a small plane crashed into the ocean about 50 miles east of Vero Beach, Florida.<\/p>\n<p>                CBS News Miami \/ Google Maps<\/p>\n<p>Authorities have not released details about the conditions of the people on board beyond confirming all 10 survived, including whether anyone suffered injuries or the severity of any possible injuries.<\/p>\n<p>An official with the Royal Bahamas Defence Force told CBS News that Bahamian authorities assisted with coordinating the rescue effort but did not deploy any assets to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our role was to assist with the coordination of the rescue effort,&#8221; the official said. &#8220;We did not physically assist through the use of our assets. U.S. authorities were able to rescue the passengers in a timely manner due to their proximity to the United States.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The FAA said it will investigate the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__meta--contributors\">\n<p>                                  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/sergio-candido\/\" class=\"byline__author__link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sergio  Candido<\/a><\/p>\n<p>        contributed to this report.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ten people were rescued Tuesday after a small aircraft crashed about 50 miles off the coast of Vero&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1539,28,30,29,3118],"class_list":["post-268436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-bahamas","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-plane-crash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268436","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=268436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}