{"id":379262,"date":"2026-08-23T21:28:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T21:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/379262\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T21:28:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T21:28:13","slug":"pilot-on-solo-flight-crashes-into-ocean-off-boca-raton-orlando-sentinel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/379262\/","title":{"rendered":"Pilot on solo flight crashes into ocean off Boca Raton \u2013 Orlando Sentinel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Investigators with the Federal Aviation Administration on Sunday were examining the wreckage of a small plane that crashed in the ocean off Boca Raton a day earlier.<\/p>\n<p>The wreckage of the Piper 30A was hoisted from the water on Sunday morning. The crash happened about 10:25 a.m. Saturday in the ocean off <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/udrqL56nK9bxbdkw8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">250 S. Ocean Boulevard<\/a> after the pilot notified authorities of mechanical issues, Boca Raton police said.<\/p>\n<p>The plane was trying to land at Boca Raton Airport when it came down in the water, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Boca Raton Ocean Rescue responded to the crash site and assisted the pilot out of the water. The pilot was the only person on board and was taken to a hospital as a precaution.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said the plane took off from Page Field in Fort Myers and was headed to Bimini Airport in the Bahamas.\u00a0The pilot was identified as a 23-year-old woman who climbed out of the plane uninjured, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gulfcoastnewsnow.com\/article\/fort-myers-plane-crash-near-boca-raton\/73501579\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to Gulf Coast News<\/a>. She told Gulf Coast News she has been piloting for four years.<\/p>\n<p>FAA investigators on Sunday were working to disassemble the plane at the Silver Palm Boat Ramp, 600 East Palmetto Park Road, as part of evidence gathering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Investigators with the Federal Aviation Administration on Sunday were examining the wreckage of a small plane that crashed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[28,29,114,115,139,141,140,109],"class_list":["post-379262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-florida","tag-florida-news","tag-latest-headlines","tag-news","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-social"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379262","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=379262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}