{"id":268658,"date":"2026-05-12T23:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T23:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/268658\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T23:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T23:02:07","slug":"10-rescued-after-a-small-plane-crashes-off-the-florida-coast-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/268658\/","title":{"rendered":"10 rescued after a small plane crashes off the Florida coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Associated Press<\/p>\n<p class=\"text byline--ap text--small text--normal text--primary\">Associated Press<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0May 12, 2026 at 6:38 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A small plane crashed Tuesday in Bahamian waters off the coast of Florida and all 10 people aboard were rescued, officials in the Bahamas said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">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 ensuing search and rescue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The aircraft crashed about 50 miles (80 kilometers) east of Florida\u2019s Vero Beach Regional Airport at around 12:05 p.m., the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The plane took off from Marsh Harbour Airport in the Bahamas and was headed to Grand Bahama International Airport in Freeport, also in the Bahamas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">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 class=\"c-paragraph\">The cause of the crash remains unknown. The FAA said it will investigate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Follow AP\u2019s coverage of Latin America and the Caribbean at https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/latin-america<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Associated Press Associated Press Published:\u00a0May 12, 2026 at 6:38 PM A small plane crashed Tuesday in Bahamian waters&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-268658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268658","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=268658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}