4 found dead after Miami family’s small plane goes missing off Bahamas

Updated on: September 8, 2026 / 12:33 PM EDT / CBS/AP

Miami — Four bodies were found Tuesday after a small plane carrying members of a Miami family went missing off the Bahamas, authorities in the Bahamas said Tuesday.

The plane took off from Great Harbour Cay at about 10:12 a.m. Monday and was heading to Miami Executive Airport in Miami-Dade County, Bahamas police said in a statement. The plane's last-known contact was at 11:04 a.m. near the western side of Andros Island, according to a statement from the family.

"Police on the island of Andros are coordinating efforts to locate an aircraft believed to have crash-landed off the coast of Red Bays, North Andros," Bahamas police said.

The bodies were found on Tuesday, the Royal Bahamas Defense Force said.

The people on board were identified by a relative as pilot Mario Lamar, 80, his wife, Lili Lamar, 79, and two of their grandchildren, 28-year-old Sofia Sosa and 22-year-old Christian Sosa.

They were returning home to Miami from a trip over the long weekend, said Silvia Larrieu, Mario and Lili's niece. Sofi Sosa had texted her parents in a family chat that they were leaving, and a flight plan her…

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