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An unresponsive U.S. plane crashed in the ocean north of Jamaica more than four hours after air traffic controllers lost contact with the pilot, a military spokesman said.

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Maj. Basil Jarrett of the Jamaican Defence Force says the plane went down Friday about 23 kilometres northeast of Port Antonio. Jarrett says the military has sent aircraft to investigate.

“We can confirm that the plane has gone down,” he said. There was no immediate information about the people on board.

The high performance single-engine turboprop was supposed to land in Florida. Instead, it travelled more than 2,200 kilometres over the Atlantic Ocean off the East Coast, over Cuba and into the Caribbean.

It took off at 8:45 a.m. from the Greater Rochester International Airport in New York, according to local officials. Air traffic controllers were last able to contact the pilot of the Socata TBM700 at 10 a.m., the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement.