Young pilot makes emergency ocean landing in Florida near busy beach

A young pilot was forced to make an emergency landing in the ocean near a busy beach in Boca Raton, Florida. Tom Hanson reports.

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Local 10 News A young pilot survived a terrifying mid-air crisis by executing a controlled emergency landing just off a crowded Florida beach. Faith Tenkley, 23, was flying to the Bahamas to pick up her parents when her dual-engine plane suffered severe mechanical failure roughly 15 miles off Boca Raton. Facing a broke

A young Florida pilot who crash-landed her plane in the Atlantic Ocean after experiencing a mechanical failure has said she's incredibly fortunate to have been able to swim away from the incident.

Faith Tenkley, 23, was heading to the Bahamas to pick up her parents when mechanical problems disabled the family’s private plane

Video captures Faith Tenkley's twin-engine Piper making a smooth water landing off Boca Raton after engine failure and landing gear malfunction.

A small twin-engine plane crashed into the Atlantic off wealthy Boca Raton, Florida, on Saturday morning as stunned beachgoers watched from shoreline.