Unresponsive, private U.S. plane crashes off coast of Jamaica; owner, wife dead

A small U.S. private plane with an unresponsive pilot crashed off the east coast of Jamaica on Friday after veering far off its course toward southwest U.S. state of Florida and triggering a U.S. security alert that prompted an F-15 fighter jet escort over Cuban air space. Larry Glazer, a real-estate executive from Rochester in New York, and his wife, Jane Glazer, were aboard the plane. Both were killed.

Larry spends some of his spare time on the ground — gardening around his house with his wife, Jane; and some in the sky — flying his plane.

Text from website of Buckingham Properties, of which Larry Glazer was the CEO

Search and rescue teams, including a military plane and a helicopter, were despatched to the crash site about 22 km north of the tourist town of Port Antonio, Jamaica’s Civil Aviation Authority said. The plane, a high performance turboprop, was owned by Glazer’s company in Rochester, N.Y., had departed Rochester at 8:45 a.m. ET and was supposed to land in Naples, Fla. The pilot stopped responding to radio calls about an hour after take-off, a spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration said.

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