Two Alabama residents were rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard after their single-engine plane splashed down in the Bahamas.
Pilot Richard McGlaughlin, 59, and his passenger Elaine McGlaughlin, 25, alerted authorities Saturday that their small plane was going down due to engine trouble.
The U.S. Coast Guard found the McGlaughlins floating in an inflatable raft about 2 miles west of Andros. Pictures provided by the Coast Guard show their plane’s tail and one wing sticking up out of the water, along with the plane’s red-and-white parachute.
No injuries were reported.
The McGlaughlins are from Birmingham, Ala. They told WSVN-TV in Miami that they deployed the plane’s parachute to soften their landing. The pair said they had been flying to Haiti for charity work.
