4 found dead after Miami family's small plane goes missing off Bahamas
A small plane carrying four family members flying back home to Florida went missing off the Bahamas, the U.S. Coast Guard and authorities in the Bahamas said.
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Coverage at a glance
- First observed by CurrentWire: Fox News · Sep 8, 2026 at 8:09 AM ET
- Coverage span: 4h 23m
- Coverage: 3 reports from 3 independent publications
- Coverage growth: 1 → 3 publications in 13h 52m

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CBS NewsTier B
4 found dead after Miami family's small plane goes missing off Bahamas(opens original report in a new tab)Global NewsTier B
U.S. family missing after small plane flying from Bahamas to Miami vanishes(opens original report in a new tab)Silvia Larrieu said her uncle, Mario Lamar, was piloting the plane that was also carrying Lamar's wife Lily Lamar and two of his grandchildren, Christian Sosa and Sophie Sosa. — Global News
Fox NewsTier B
4 Florida family members found dead after small plane goes down off the Bahamas(opens original report in a new tab)U.S. Coast Guard joined the search for a plane carrying four Florida family members that authorities believe "crash-landed" near Andros Island in the Bahamas. — Fox News
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Signal breakdown
CurrentWire ranked this story 81.8 of 100 in the snapshot this page was rendered from.
- Freshness
- 31.8 of 35
- Source authority
- 14 of 20
- Coverage breadth
- 11.1 of 20
- Geographic relevance
- 10 of 10
- Story prominence
- 10 of 10
- Velocity
- 5 of 5
Strongest signal: geographic relevance, 10 of 10. How each signal is calculated.
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