Unresponsive Plane Crashes In Jamaica

An unresponsive plane tracked earlier today by NORAD has crashed in Jamaica.  The FAA confirms the small plane is down but has not yet said exactly where.

The plane had taken off from New York headed for Florida.

Authorities were unable to make contact with anyone on board and dispatched two F 15 fighter jets to intercept it.

They broke off the mission once the plane entered Cuban airspace.

No word yet on how many people were aboard.

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Government officials say the pursuit began after the pilot failed to respond to repeated contact attempts by air traffic controllers.

The FAA says controllers were last able to contact the pilot of the high-performance single-engine turboprop at around 10 a.m., Eastern time. The pilot took off from Rochester, New York, and had filed a flight plan to Naples, Florida.

The fighter jets were launched at around 11:30. An aviation tracking website, Flightaware, showed the plane over the Caribbean at around 2 p.m.

It's the second time in less than a week that private pilot has become unresponsive during a flight. On Saturday, a pilot lost consciousness and his plane drifted into restricted airspace over the nation's capital. Fighter jets were also launched in that case and stayed with the small aircraft until it ran out of fuel and crashed Saturday into the Atlantic.