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Nearly three hours later, they spotted the five people floating on a life raft about nine nautical miles southeast of Nassau.

The pilot is reportedly Bahamian, but the nationalities of the others aboard the aircraft were not immediately reported. There were no reported injuries.

The plane had taken off from Crooked Islands, Bahamas, and was en route to Nassau when it went down.

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Austin Walters died from an overdose in 2021 after taking a Xanax pill laced with fentanyl, his father said. A new law named after Austin and aimed at preventing deaths from fentanyl has resulted in its first convictions in Georgia, prosecutors said. (Family photo)

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