WASHINGTON: A small US plane crashed in waters off Jamaica on Friday after flying for hours with an unresponsive pilot, veering off course and sparking a fighter jet escort.
At least two people were killed.
The plane went down 14 miles (22 kilometers) north of Port Antonio on the northeast coast of the island, a Jamaican official told AFP, adding that “search and rescue operations are underway.”
The seven-seat aircraft, a Socata TBM-700 — which took off from Rochester, New York and was headed to Naples, Florida — crashed at around 2:15 pm (1815 GMT), US aviation officials said.
