{"id":269134,"date":"2026-05-13T08:17:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T08:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/269134\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T08:17:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T08:17:13","slug":"10-rescued-after-small-plane-crashes-off-floridas-east-coast-orlando-sentinel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/269134\/","title":{"rendered":"10 rescued after small plane crashes off Florida\u2019s east coast \u2013 Orlando Sentinel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A small plane crashed Tuesday in <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/bahamas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bahamian waters<\/a> 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 ensuing search and rescue.<\/p>\n<p>The aircraft crashed about 50 miles east of Florida\u2019s Vero Beach Regional Airport around 12:05 p.m., the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said.<\/p>\n<p>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>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. The FAA said it will investigate.<\/p>\n<p>Follow AP\u2019s coverage of Latin America and the Caribbean at <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/latin-america\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/latin-america<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A small plane crashed Tuesday in Bahamian waters off the coast of Florida and all 10 people aboard&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[29,114,115,139,141,140,1798],"class_list":["post-269134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-florida-news","tag-latest-headlines","tag-news","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269134","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=269134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}