{"id":268530,"date":"2026-05-12T21:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T21:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/268530\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T21:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T21:12:07","slug":"10-rescued-after-a-small-plane-crashes-off-the-florida-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/268530\/","title":{"rendered":"10 rescued after a small plane crashes off the Florida coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A small plane crashed Tuesday in Bahamian waters about 80 miles (about 130 kilometers) off the coast of Florida and all 10 people aboard were rescued, officials in the Bahamas said. <\/p>\n<p>The pilot had declared an emergency and then communication with the aircraft was lost, the Aircraft Accident Investigation Authority in the Bahamas said in a media post. The U.S. Coast Guard and multiple Bahamian agencies were involved in the ensuring search and rescue.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Coast Guard launched a C-27 aircraft to look for the downed Beechcraft 300 King Air turboprop plane. The rescued passengers were brought in for medical evaluations, the Coast Guard said.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the crash remains unknown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A small plane crashed Tuesday in Bahamian waters about 80 miles (about 130 kilometers) off the coast of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[556,28,30,29,122],"class_list":["post-268530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-ap-a-wire","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-wires-bot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268530","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=268530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}