The U.S. Coast Guard rescued nearly a dozen people after a small plane crashed in Bahamian waters off the Florida coast on Tuesday, May 12.

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On Tuesday, May 12, a small plane crashed into the ocean off the coast of Florida. The pilot and 10 passengers on board clung to a raft for five hours before they were rescued.

Eleven people were rescued after their plane went down in the Atlantic Ocean on a flight to the Bahamas. Officials say everyone on board survived when the Coast Guard responded to the crash site

When Olympia Outten heard the sounds of the U.S. Space Force plane and a rescue helicopter, she said she jumped for joy in the middle of her life raft, while waiving an emergency flag.

Ian Nixon, a veteran pilot from the Bahamas, put the plane he was flying down in the ocean without anyone suffering serious injuries.

Eleven people were rescued off the aircraft after it collided 80 miles off Melbourne, Fla., on Tuesday, May 12, the U.S. Coast Guard said