KINGSTON, Jamaica — Trailed much of the way by two U.S. fighter jets, a small plane with an unresponsive pilot flew a ghostly 1,700-mile journey down the East Coast and through Cuban airspace on Friday before finally crashing off the coast of Jamaica.
Maj. Basil Jarrett of the Jamaican Defense Force said the plane went down about 14 miles northeast of the coastal town of Port Antonio, and the military sent two aircraft and a dive team to investigate.
The plane, which took off at 8:45 a.m. from the Greater Rochester International Airport in New York, was carrying a prominent real estate developer and his wife, the couple’s son said. Rick Glazer said that his parents, Larry and Jane Glazer, were licensed pilots. He said he can’t confirm they were killed, adding that “we know so little.”
Air-traffic controllers were last able to contact the pilot of the Socata TBM700, a high performance single-engine turboprop, at 10 a.m., the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said.
