Twin-engine plane ditches in Atlantic; 11 rescued in dramatic last-minute operation

Eleven passengers endured over five hours in an inflatable raft in dangerous ocean conditions; three sustained minor injuries, with rescue occurring minutes before catastrophic conditions would have prevented evacuation.

On a Tuesday morning over the Atlantic, a routine island flight became a test of human endurance and institutional readiness when a twin-engine Beechcraft suffered a cascade of failures and was ditched into the ocean some 230 kilometers off Florida's coast. Eleven souls spent five hours adrift in an inflatable raft before a diverted Air Force helicopter, guided by an emergency beacon, pulled them from the water with minutes to spare before fuel and weather conspired to make rescue impossible. The event stands as a reminder that survival often rests not on any single act of heroism, but on the

Twin-engine plane ditches in Atlantic; 11 rescued in dramatic last-minute operation

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