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11 survive plane crash off Florida coast after 5 hours in life raft

The aircraft’s emergency locator beacon set off the rescue response.

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Airmen with the 920th RQW rescued the survivors from the water. PIC COURTESY/Gwendolyn Kurzen

Airmen with the 920th RQW rescued the survivors from the water. PIC COURTESY/Gwendolyn Kurzen

Eleven people survived after a private plane crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off Florida’s central coast on Tuesday. They spent almost five hours in a life raft before US military rescue crews pulled them to safety. 

The aircraft, identified as a Beechcraft 300 King Air turboprop, crashed about 50 miles off Vero Beach, Florida, after reportedly losing engine power during a flight between islands in the Bahamas.

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