Passenger Falls Out Of Plane

A passenger fell out of small plane and
plummeted into the water in Miami's
Biscayne Bay today, police said.
The plane was flying at 1,800 feet at the
time.
Air traffic control received a "mayday" call
around 1:30 p.m. ET when the Piper PA 46
was flying roughly eight miles southeast of
Tamiami Executive Airport.
"Mayday! Mayday! Mayday! I have a door
ajar and I'm heading toward Tamiami," the
pilot told air traffic control. "I have a door
ajar and a passenger that fell down. I'm six
miles from Tamiami."
"You said you've got a passenger that fell
out of your plane?" the air traffic controller
asks the pilot.
"That's correct, sir. He opened the
backdoor and he just fell out the plane,"
said the unidentified pilot.
The aircraft continued onto Tamiami
Airport and landed.
Miami-Dade Police tell ABCNews.com that
their homicide unit was dispatched to the
airport Thursday afternoon to question the
pilot. The only people aboard the plane
had been the pilot and the passenger,
police said.
Detectives are currently at the Tamiami
Airport "talking to the pilot to see what
transpired before the passenger fell from
the plane."
Divers with the Miami-Dade police
department are searching the area where
the man is believed to have fallen into the
water. That area is between the Cape
Florida Lighthouse on Key Biscayne and the
seashore so some-where in that section of
Biscayne Bay.
The Coast Guard station Miami Beach sent
a search and rescue boat to search the
waters and Miami-Dade County Air Rescue
dispatched one of their helicopters as well.
That helicopter has since been called off.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/passenger-
falls-plane-off-florida-coast-235439057--
abc-news-topstories.html

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