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GREAT EXUMA

GREAT EXUMA

International Airport

GEORGE TOWN

LITTLE EXUMA

Mystery disapearance of pilot and wife on route to Bahama coast

The pilot and his passenger, 25-year-old Elaine McGlaughlin,

both from Birmingham, Alabama were traveling together to attend a local government fundraising event at Georgetown university

on the the island of Great Exuma.

The pilot and passenger departed from Fort Lauderdale regional airport Miami at 10:15.

Pilot Richard McGlaughlin, �ying a single engine Cirrus type aircraft , made a distress call at 12:15 reporting that his aircraft had developed engine trouble and losing altitude and required immediate assistance, loosing radio contact 20miles o� Georgetown.

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The united states Coastal Service have dispatched a MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter and deployed several other coast gard services to

scout the area and investigate the potential crash zone. The plane could be as far as 100 miles away from the initial crash zone due to strong ocean currents.

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GREAT EXUMA

International Airport

GEORGE TOWN

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BREAKING NEWS!! The pilot and his passenger, 25-year-old Elaine McGlaughlin, both from Birming-

ham, Alabama, deployed their parachute before ditching the plane where it plummeted into the sea 20 miles o� the island of Great Exma part of the

Bahamas islands.

The pair then spent the next 27 hours adrift in an in�atible life raft drifting a further 50 miles in a South Westerly direction in inhospitible weather with wind

squalls reaching 90 k/m/h.

At aprox 8.15 am the following morning. The McGlaughlins where spotted by a MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter and a short time later were plucked to saftey from the

heavey seas and �own by rescue teams to Odyssey Airport in nearby Nassau, where they remain under medical suppervision.

Richard and Elaine McGlaughlin, pictured, were not injured in the crash.

NASSAU