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Authorities in jamaica say they've made an important discovery in the mysterious crash of a small private plane off the coast it the plane took off from rochester, new york, en route to naples, florida, but something went wrong.
>> no, i think that the record has improved a lot with the small planes as well. i mean, to have moved forward sort of in tandem. and you're right, there's a tremendous difference. when i first started reporting aviation, this is about 35 years ago, something like that, there was a big commercial crash at least once, if not twice a year in the u.s. and now, i mean, it's just such a rare thing. so, on both the private planes and the big jets, the safety record has improved remarkably. >> yet, these do go down relatively often, or go down more often than commercial jetliners. is that just due to...
Oil slick may be the site of an unresponsive plane. renee marsh has more. >> reporter: a search mission under way right now for this small plane after it crashed 14 miles after the coast of jamaica. it took off from rochester, new york around 8:45 this morning bound for naples florida. on board, larry glazer and his wife jane. he told air traffic control there was a problem but did not declare an emergency. he was cleared to descend to 25,000 feet but asked to go lower. >> we need to assess down to about 1-8-0. we have an inch cation that is not correct with the plane. >> we need to get lower....
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180. we have an indication that is not correct in the plane. we need to get lower. >> reporter: about an hour and 15 minutes after takeoff, the pilot stopped responding to radio calls. u.s. military f-15s tracked it along the east coast of florida. one fighter pilot looked through the window. >> i can see his chest rising and falling. right before i left was the first time we could see he was actually breathing. >> the pressure may have escaped, leaving the pilot without enough oxygen to stay conscious. the aircraft flew over the bahamas and south to cuba, where a cuban fighter jet took over t...