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<\/p>\nSmall plane crashes into Atlantic Ocean off Boca Raton; pilot rescued<\/p>\n
Piper departed from Fort Myers and headed to Bimini<\/p>\n
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A small plane crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on Saturday morning with a woman, the only person aboard, uninjured and taken to a local hospital as a precaution, the Boca Raton Police Department and Boca Raton Fire Rescue said. <\/p>\n
A Piper PA30 series twin-engine propeller plane crashed in the ocean 2 miles east of Boca Raton Airport around 10:40 a.m. local time, Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Cassandra Nolan told WPBF.<\/p>\n
The flight departed from Page Field in Fort Myers and was headed to South Bimini Airport in the Bahamas. <\/p>\n
The plane was cleared to land at Boca Raton Airport when the emergency was declared, Clara Bennett, executive director of the Boca Raton Airport Authority, said. <\/p>\n
The pilot was taken from the plane by Boca Raton Ocean Rescue.<\/p>\n
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Police said to avoid the area of 250 S. Ocean Blvd., which is near West Palmetto Park Road. <\/p>\n
Spectators were gathered at South Beach Park. <\/p>\n
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Plane crash off Boca Raton.<\/p>\n
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The Boca Raton Police Marine Unit and the U.S. Coast Guard remain on the scene while the Federal Aviation Administration is en route. <\/p>\n
“I was there when it happened,” Maria Marks told WPBF. “One second I\u2019m spraying sunscreen on my kid. The next I\u2019m looking up and saying, ‘is that supposed to be happening.’ “<\/p>\n
Robert Taplinger, who lives in The Marbella off Ocean Boulevard, said he has an oceanfront view of the scene.<\/p>\n
“The plane is totally intact,” Taplinger told WPBF. <\/p>\n
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Hours later, only the tail was visible before it was to be towed.<\/p>\n
Craig Sutton posted video online that shows the plane going into the ocean.<\/p>\n
The Piper PA30 series planes were built by Piper Aircraft between 1961 and 1972 with four or six seats.<\/p>\n
The tail number of the model PA-39 is registered to USOARFlorida LLC in Fort Myers, according to the FAA. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Small plane crashes into Atlantic Ocean off Boca Raton; pilot rescued Piper departed from Fort Myers and headed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[31996,2954,11160,3337,98768,88563,41820,19296,28,30,29,897,6686,15470,106116,152220,18446,10258,152219,152190,10015,725,152191,27748,94703,221,152189,189],"class_list":["post-378773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-agency","tag-area","tag-atlantic-ocean","tag-boca-raton","tag-boca-raton-fire-rescue","tag-boca-raton-police-department","tag-emergency-personnel","tag-executive-director","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-fort-myers","tag-late-headline","tag-news-story","tag-only-person","tag-page-field","tag-pilot","tag-plane","tag-robert-taplinger","tag-s-ocean-blvd","tag-saturday-morning","tag-scene","tag-single-engine-piper","tag-small-plane","tag-tail","tag-weather","tag-west-palmetto-park-road","tag-wpbf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378773","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=378773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}