Passenger reported falling out of plane
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Rescue crews searched an area southeast of Miami after a pilot reported to the US Federal Aviation Administration that a passenger fell out of his small plane into the ocean on Thursday.
FAA spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen said the call came at 1:30pm from the pilot of a Piper PA 46 aircraft. The plane was flying at about 610 meters when the call came in, she said.
Coast Guard and Miami-Dade Fire Rescue units were searching an area about 13 kilometers southeast of Tamiami Executive Airport, south of Miami, where the plane safely landed. It wasn’t immediately clear where the flight originated or how many people were on board.
According to a recording on the website LiveATC.Net, the unidentified pilot calmly radioed “mayday, mayday, mayday,” and told an air traffic controller a door was ajar.
“I have a door ajar and a passenger that fell down. I’m 6 miles (10 kilometers) from Tamiami,” the pilot says.
“You said you’ve got a passenger that fell out of your plane?” the air traffic controller responds.
“That’s correct, sir,” the pilot said. “He opened the back door, and he just fell out the plane.”
LiveATC.Net provides live air traffic control broadcasts from control towers and radar facilities around the world.
Coast Guard and fire rescue officials said they hadn’t confirmed whether the pilot’s emergency call was legitimate. The Miami-Dade Police Department sent detectives to the airport to further investigate.
The Coast Guard had a boat and a helicopter in the search, but stopped searching about 7pm when it got too dark.
The fire rescue agency had three marine units and two aircraft, said a spokesman.
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