'Unresponsive aircraft': Two F-15s race to plane over Atlantic

September 06, 2014 00:12

Two F-15 fighter jets were dispatched over the Atlantic Ocean on Friday to follow a turboprop plane that stopped responding to radio calls and flew hundreds of miles off course. The pilot was spotted "unconscious and slumped over' in the cockpit, U.S. officials told NBC News.

NORAD, the joint American and Canadian air command, said the fighter jets broke off the trail after the plane entered Cuban airspace. The plane was flying at about 25,000 feet, the Federal Aviation Administration said.

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