Florida crew recounts ‘miraculous’ Atlantic plane rescue with fuel low
All 11 aboard survived after the plane made an emergency landing near the Bahamas
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A military rescue crew in https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/florida">Florida has spoken of the “pretty miraculous” survival of all 11 people it saved from a plane crash in the Atlantic Ocean, and its own scramble to safety with five minutes of fuel left.
Members of the 920th rescue wing, based at Patrick Space Force base, not far from Cape Canaveral, raced on Tuesday to reach the passengers and crew in choppy seas.
They had emerged from a small Beechcraft twin-propeller aircraft that ditched into the water about 80 miles east of Melbourne on Florida’s east coast.
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