{"id":271980,"date":"2026-05-15T08:27:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T08:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/271980\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T08:27:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T08:27:15","slug":"11-people-survive-plane-crash-off-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/271980\/","title":{"rendered":"11 people survive plane crash off Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

A plane carrying 11 people crashed off Melbourne, Florida, the Coast Guard announced Wednesday. <\/p>\n

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All of the passengers survived the crash, which occurred roughly 80 miles from the Florida coast Tuesday, according to officials. <\/p>\n

The passengers, all Bahamian adults, were stranded at sea for roughly five hours, according to one of the survivors, Olympia Outten. They were rescued by the Air Force.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe thought no one would have saw us. But I thank God for the U.S. Marine. They saw us, and they save us,\u201d Outten said at a news conference Thursday. \u201cAnd I thought, I keep on telling them, I say, \u2018Lord, save us. Lord, save us. Let someone see us.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\"RescueAn Air Force plane saved all of the passengers in the crash Tuesday, officials said in a news release.via U.S. Air Force Reserve Command<\/p>\n

The civilian aircraft, a Beechcraft BE30, was flying from Marsh Harbour, Bahamas, to Freeport, officials said.<\/p>\n

An emergency locator transmitter signal from the plane alerted the Coast Guard around 11 a.m. ET, officials said. <\/p>\n

An Air Force combat helicopter crew was already airborne, conducting a routine training mission, when the alert was received, and the crew was asked to redirect to assist the search-and-rescue effort, the Air Force said in a news release. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe are proud to have played a role in bringing 11 people home safely,\u201d Air Force Col. Chadd Bloomstine said in a statement. <\/p>\n

The passengers were taken to Melbourne Orlando International Airport, where emergency medical personnel were waiting for them. <\/p>\n

Dr. Scott Zenoni said at the news conference that the passengers had various injuries, including broken bones and lacerations, but were all in stable condition. <\/p>\n

\"RescueAn emergency locator transmitter signal alerted authorities around 11 a.m. ET, officials said.via U.S. Air Force Reserve Command<\/p>\n

Authorities said that the plane\u2019s engine failed and that Bahamian authorities are investigating the case. <\/p>\n

Outten suggested that her niece, who was also on board, suspected that the plane\u2019s engine wasn\u2019t working.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe noticed the motors wasn\u2019t moving anymore, and she told him,\u201d Outten said. \u201cShe said, the best thing to do is to put the plane down in the water.\u201d<\/p>\n

Outten said that the pilot was \u201calright\u201d after the crash, but that he was \u201cin a trance.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe can\u2019t believe this happens, after it happened,\u201d she said. \u201cThen he said he\u2019s not going to fly anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A plane carrying 11 people crashed off Melbourne, Florida, the Coast Guard announced Wednesday. Subscribe to read this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-271980","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\/271980","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=271980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}