MIAMI — The Coast Guard is responding to a downed aircraft Friday approximately 221 miles northeast of Marsh Harbor, Bahamas.
Two Florida Air National Guard F-15 fighter aircrafts witnessed the plane crash in the ocean.
Coast Guard 7th District watchstanders were notified by Miami Mission Control of a non-responsive pilot traveling from St. Louis, Missouri to Fort Lauderdale, Florida in a 2001 twin-engine Cessna Citation aircraft at approximately 5 p.m. Watchstanders launched a Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater HC-130 Hercules airplane crew to respond to the incident.
MMC stated the aircraft was reported to only have a pilot aboard.
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