The Coast Guard deployed several search and rescue vessels as well as helicopters covering more than 1,500 miles of ocean looking for the mayday victims
A call came into the Federal Aviation Administration in Miami about 1:30pm on Thursday from the pilot of small Piper PA 46 aircraft yelling "Mayday, Mayday, Mayday!" The reason for the panic was he had a passenger fall out of his plane at about 2,000 feet over the ocean.