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A private plane traveling from Rochester, New York to Naples, Florida crashed into the ocean near Jamaica after the pilot became unresponsive.

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00:02 Here's what we know right now about this plane that
00:03 has now crashed in the waters off of Jamaica it left
00:06 Rochester New -- airport about 8:30 this morning this is the
00:09 path courtesy of flight aware. You can see the line here
00:12 with heading down south. Toward Florida Naples Florida bit about 10
00:16 o'clock this morning air traffic controllers lost contact with this flight
00:20 with the pilot of that that point that the the deviation.
00:23 In the track here in the plane started going off course.
00:26 At some point the a federal government decided to scrambled two
00:30 F fifteen fighter jets they trailed this plane. Especially at it
00:34 was heading off the coast and then down toward Cuba. While
00:38 the F fifteens were tracking that they actually noticed -- that
00:41 the pilot was slumped over. And that the windows were frosted
00:45 over possibly indicating hypoxia and we -- here now once you
00:49 got about twelve miles off of Cuba. This is -- here
00:52 the large island does that fifteen had to back off with
00:54 force don't have good relations with the country of Cuba at.
00:57 At that point Cuban authorities and Cuban pilots started tracking that
01:00 plane it went across Cuba. Finally cleared Cuban airspace and then
01:05 now we're learning has crashed just miles up the coast of
01:08 Jamaica which is the smaller island right here. Here's what we
01:12 know about this flight and the pilots CNBC is now reporting
01:15 that the son of Larry Glazer. Who was a prominent real
01:18 estate developer in the Rochester area is the -- and that
01:21 he and his wife were on board this is Larry --
01:23 here -- the picture of a public plane that is similar
01:26 to this -- -- TBM. 700. Jim we're told now two
01:30 people on board. Larry Glazer and his wife. Larry Glazer owns
01:34 bucking -- properties in Rochester which owns. Millions of square feet
01:38 of real estate in that area they have sent all of
01:41 their employees home for the rest of today obviously a big
01:44 loss for the Rochester community a real mystery has how all
01:47 of this happened and of course is rare for a plane
01:49 to go down in this manner. But -- a plane from
01:52 Rochester New York that was supposed to be going to Naples
01:55 Florida earlier today has now crashed. Off the coast of Jamaica.

Bart Jansen and David Andreatta 3:46 p.m. EDT September 5, 2014

The flight of the unresponsive plane, according to flightaware.com(Photo: .)

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A plane belonging to a New York state developer with three people aboard has crashed in the ocean north of Jamaica after flying unresponsive for hours and being escorted by U.S. fighter jets, according to federal officials.

The North American Aerospace Defense Command scrambled two F-15 fighter jets at 11:30 a.m. to intercept the Socata TBM-900 headed from Rochester, N.Y., to Naples, Fla.

Military pilots weren't able to communicate with the plane's occupants, but saw that the plane's windows were frosted, according to Army Maj. Beth Smith, a NORAD spokeswoman.

The single-engine turbo-prop is registered to Rochester developer Larry Glazer. Attempts to reach Glazer, who has development projects in Naples, on his cellphone were unsuccessful. A voicemail left on his phone was not immediately returned.

Joseph Rowley Jr., director of leasing and marketing at Buckingham Properties, which is owned by Glazer, declined to comment. The company closed early Friday.

TBM-700 profile(Photo: Janet Loehrke, USA TODAY)

A woman answering the phone at QCI Direct, a catalog company owned by Glazer's wife, Jane Glazer, at 2:15 p.m., said the company was not making any public statements.

Moments later, a voice recording at QCI said the company was closed.

The plane took off at 8:26 a.m. and was scheduled to land in Naples about noon, according to FlightAware.com, a flight-tracking service. As the plane entered Cuban airspace, the U.S. jets broke off their pursuit, according to NORAD.

The military routinely responds to unknown aviation activity, with heightened security after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. The incidents are often accidents rather than terrorist incidents.

Two F-16 fighter jets followed a general-aviation plane Monday that had taken off from Waukesha Airport in Wisconsin and was on its way to Manassas Airport in Virginia, before it crashed in the Atlantic.

Plane occupants occasionally die of hypoxia for lack of oxygen at higher altitudes.

A prominent example was golfer Payne Stewart, who died in October 1999 as a passenger in a Learjet that lost cabin pressure on a flight from Florida to Texas. Tracked by an F-16, the jet coasted for hours until crashing in South Dakota.

Contributing: Andreatta also reports for the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.

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