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THE US COAST Guard is searching for 39 people missing for several days after a boat believed to be piloted by human smugglers capsized off Florida’s coast en route from the Bahamas.
A good Samaritan called the Coast Guard today after rescuing a man clinging to the boat 45 miles east of Fort Pierce, the maritime security agency reported on Twitter.
The man said he was with a group that left the island of Bimini in the Bahamas on Saturday night. He said the boat capsized in severe weather and that no-one was wearing life jackets.
The Coast Guard is calling it a case of human smuggling. Officials said on Twitter that they are searching by both air and sea over a roughly 135-mile area extending from Bimini to the Fort Pierce Inlet.
The agency patrols the waters around Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Cuba and the Bahamas, along routes often used by migrants trying to reach the US.
The agency stops and repatriates foreigners found navigating in US waters.
On Friday, the Coast Guard found 88 Haitians in an overloaded sail freighter west of Great Inagua, Bahamas.
“Navigating the Florida straits, Windward and Mona Passages… is extremely dangerous and can result in loss of life,” the Coast Guard said in a statement last weekend.
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“Amazingly the pilot finished the flight” , wtf was he supposed to do get out and walk off ?.
Put the plane down at the nearest suitable and safe landing strip, would be the preferred option. Not continuing on and finishing the full scheduled route with a damaged aircraft and probable damage to its radar systems located in the nose cone
@Wayne
The problem is the pilot did not receive authorisation to divert or land at the nearest airport
Larissa, and that’s where the “amazing” part comes in, the pilot managed to complete a flight with a badly damaged aircraft, and most likely a damaged radar. It was a response to a comment not the story
@Wayne
Okay, there was a slight misunderstanding then :)
But it just goes to show, that it’s probably the safest option to keep your seatbelt fastened at all times, I’m surprised no-one got injured by hitting the overhead lockers
The Chinese ATC were a bunch of pr!cks for not letting the plane fly around the storm, they also endangered the people on the plane.
Yeah but you wont hear much condemnation around here from the pro commies
An emergency landing in North Korea. That would be fun.
All crew and passengers would be arrested on the spot and used by Kim Jong Un as hostages to lift the sanctions off North Korea, or executed on the spot for being spies
Why all the red thumbs? Anything is possible in North Korea considering one of the Generals was killed not so long ago with an anti-aircraft gun, don’t underestimate the power of an underfed brainwashed country
A country that would be left to starve and rot if the US was to withdraw food aid.
It’ll probably cost them more to get the smell of $hit out of the aircraft than it’ll take to replace the nose!!
I’d be most worried about the engines … They also got hit just as much as the nose ….
Never unbuckle seat belt incase of a sudden draft wind
747′s are a serious plane. They have an amazing safety record. I’m not surprised this one carried on. It’s a real shame these planes won’t be around much longer.
Why won’t they be around much longer? Boeing are full for orders for 2 years?
Yup- but not for for 747s -
There’s always the 800s coming off the production line.
They are on the way to being extinct. All the big 747 airlines are retiring their fleets and replacing with more fuel efficient 777 dreamliners and the like. Even the Airbus a380s are now under threat. Planes with 4 engines are a big no no now. Boeing predict that the only 747s they will manufacture in the future will be for the president of the USA. A sad future prediction for probably the greatest aircraft ever manufactured
Unfortunately the majority are freighters and not passenger planes.
That’s not the point. Boeing have oodles of orders for jumbos. Doesn’t matter to them if they are passenger or freighters. We will have 747s in the air for all of our lifetimes.
Yes for 747s mark.
Yes but you or I may never be on one ever again Cian, unless someone mails you in a box to China. Also alot of those orders are up in the air. Airlines are changing their minds everyday. Google search ‘end of the jumbo’ and you will find lots of articles. Interesting reading.
There are only 30 of the newer variant passenger plane flying today Cian. I’m pretty sure they won’t make a nice or any profit off those numbers.
I’d say that was fun for the passengers…not!
A sheep on here called someone else brainwashed.
Only on the journal.
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