{"id":841209,"date":"2026-09-09T01:26:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T01:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/841209\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T01:26:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T01:26:13","slug":"4-found-dead-after-miami-familys-small-plane-goes-missing-off-bahamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/841209\/","title":{"rendered":"4 found dead after Miami family&#8217;s small plane goes missing off Bahamas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Miami \u2014 Four bodies were found Tuesday after a small plane carrying members of a Miami family went missing off the Bahamas, authorities in the Bahamas said Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The plane took off from Great Harbour Cay at about 10:12 a.m. Monday and was heading to Miami Executive Airport in Miami-Dade County, Bahamas police said in a statement. The plane&#8217;s last-known contact was at 11:04 a.m. near the western side of Andros Island, according to a statement from the family.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Police on the island of Andros are coordinating efforts to locate an aircraft believed to have crash-landed off the coast of Red Bays, North Andros,&#8221; Bahamas police said.<\/p>\n<p>The bodies were found on Tuesday, the Royal Bahamas Defense Force said. The remains were being transported to the Bahamas, police there said.<\/p>\n<p>The people on board were identified by a relative as pilot Mario Lamar, 80, his wife, Lili Lamar, 79, and two of their grandchildren, 28-year-old Sofia Sosa and 22-year-old Christian Sosa.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They were returning home to Miami from a trip over the long weekend, said Silvia Larrieu, Mario and Lili&#8217;s niece. Sofi Sosa had texted her parents in a family chat that they were leaving, and a flight plan her uncle filed showed the time the plane was expected to land, Larrieu said.<\/p>\n<p>The family contacted authorities after seeing messages were not being delivered.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mario Lamar has over 40 years of flying experience, kept the plane in pristine condition and was very cautious, Larrieu said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is awful,&#8221; she told The Associated Press in a brief phone interview.<\/p>\n<p>One of the bodies was found by a relative out searching by boat, Larrieu said.<\/p>\n<p>Bahamas police identified the plane as a PA-34 Piper five-seater aircraft, with tail number N212ML. It said it departed Great Harbour Cay, a city in the Berry Islands of the Bahamas.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/plane.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"plane.jpg \" height=\"480\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Members of a Miami family were reported missing after a small plane crash near the Bahamas.<\/p>\n<p>                Photo courtesy of Silvia Larrieu<\/p>\n<p>Air traffic control lost contact with the aircraft when it was about 13 miles west of Andros Island, Bahamas police said. <\/p>\n<p>Bahamian officials contacted the U.S. Coast Guard at about 2 p.m. and requested assistance finding a downed plane, a spokesperson said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Southeast District command center watchstanders coordinated the launch of an HC-144 Ocean Sentry to assist Bahamian authorities with the search,&#8221; the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p>\n              Go deeper with The Free Press\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miami \u2014 Four bodies were found Tuesday after a small plane carrying members of a Miami family went&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":841210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,62039,3,21,32580,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-841209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-bahamas","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-coast-guard","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=841209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/841210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}