A search-and-rescue team with two aircrafts has been dispatched to the site of the accident.
WASHINGTON: An unresponsive plane crashed near Jamaica on Friday, according to the Jamaica Defence Force (JDP)
Coast Guard.
Basil Jarrett, an official at the Civil Military Cooperation and Media Affairs Officer at JDF, said the plane crashed 14 miles northeast of Port Antonio, a tourist city on the coast of Jamaica.
A search and rescue team with two aircraft has been dispatched to the site of the accident.
It is reported the Socata TBM700, a high performance single- engine turboprop light business and utility aircraft, left Rochester, New York Friday morning and was scheduled to land in Naples, Florida with two people on board.
It drew the attention of U.S. authorities when it failed to land. The last contact between the plane and air traffic controllers was at 10am Friday morning.
As of 11.30am, the U.S. military launched two F-15 jet fighters under the direction of North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) to trail the aircraft, but the U.S. planes broke off before reaching Cuban airspace 12 miles off the island's coast, NORAD said.
The six-seat aircraft was then cruising at about 25, 000 feet and was believed to be running out of fuel.
-- source: Bernama
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