A search is underway for an American household of two grandparents and two grandchildren who’re lacking after their small aircraft apparently crashed off the Bahamas coast Monday, based on the U.S. Coast Guard and Bahamian officers.
“At roughly 2 p.m. the Royal Bahamian Protection Pressure requested Coast Guard help following a report of a downed airplane with 4 individuals aboard roughly 15 miles off Andros Island, Bahamas,” the Coast Guard stated in an announcement Monday night, including that they have been helping Bahamian authorities with the search.
A search is underway for an American household of two grandparents and two grandchildren who’re lacking after their small aircraft, pictured right here, apparently crashed off the Bahamas coast Sept. 7, 2026, based on the U.S. Coast Guard and Bahamian officers.
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“Police on the island of Andros are coordinating efforts to find an plane believed to have crash-landed off the coast of Purple Bays, North Andros,” the Bahamas Police stated in an announcement, figuring out the aircraft as a “PA-34 Piper five-seater plane, bearing tail quantity N212ML” which “departed Nice Harbour Cay at roughly 11:12 a.m.” with 4 individuals on board.
“Air Visitors Management subsequently misplaced contact with the plane roughly 13 miles west of Andros Island,” the Bahamas Police assertion stated, including that poor climate had postponed the seek for the household for an unspecified time.
A household assertion offered to ABC Information recognized the passengers as Mario Lamar Sr., 80; Lili Lamar, 79; Sofi Sosa, 28, and Christian Sosa, 22. Mario Lamar is “an skilled pilot with greater than 40 years of flying expertise,” based on the household assertion.
The plane was “sure for Miami Government Airport, previously Tamiami Airport, and its final identified contact was at roughly 11:04 a.m. close to the western aspect of Andros Island,” the household assertion stated.
The household requested for Bahamian officers, the U.S. Coast Guard and “all applicable native authorities to work collectively and deploy each accessible useful resource to find the plane and its 4 occupants as shortly as attainable.”
“The Lamar and Sosa households are deeply grateful to everybody collaborating within the search and to those that have reached out with assist,” the assertion stated.
ABC Information’ Rachel DeLima contributed to this report.
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