{"id":89240,"date":"2026-05-15T08:51:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T08:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=89240"},"modified":"2026-05-15T08:51:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T08:51:24","slug":"pretty-miraculous-11-rescued-after-pilot-ditches-plane-in-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/05\/15\/pretty-miraculous-11-rescued-after-pilot-ditches-plane-in-atlantic\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Pretty miraculous&#8217; &#8211; 11 rescued after pilot ditches plane in Atlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/1600\/cpsprodpb\/e96f\/live\/79ea4430-5039-11f1-8b8c-6d33e1d5abb6.png\" alt=\"A map showing the state of Florida and the Bahamas. Two points mark where the flight originated and was supposed to land. Another point shows where the flight crashed. A fourth point shows the Florida city of Melbourne. \" \/><\/p>\n<p><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">In 25 years of flying, pilot Ian Nixon had never faced anything like the crash that left him and 10 passengers stranded for hours in the Atlantic Ocean, waiting to be rescued\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/ckgpj0m3wr2o\">Read\u00a0 More<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>&nbsp; In 25 years of flying, pilot Ian Nixon had never faced anything like the crash that left him and 10 passengers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-89240","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/11-rescued.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89242,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89240\/revisions\/89242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}