UPDATE: Jamaica's military says a private plane based in the United States with an unresponsive pilot has crashed in the ocean north of the Caribbean island.

There's no information yet about the people on board. The U.S. sent up a pair of F-15 fighter jets to follow the plane over the Atlantic after the pilot failed to respond to repeated contact attempts by air traffic controllers. The plane took off this morning from Rochester, New York, for Naples, Florida.

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Two F-15 fighter jets have been following a private plane over the Atlantic Ocean today.

Government officials say the pursuit began after the pilot failed to respond to repeated contact attempts by air traffic controllers.

The FAA says controllers were last able to contact the pilot of the high-performance single-engine turboprop at around 10 a.m., Eastern time. The pilot took off from Rochester, New York, and had filed a flight plan to Naples, Florida.

The fighter jets were launched at around 11:30. An aviation tracking website, Flightaware, showed the plane over the Caribbean at around 2 p.m.

It's the second time in less than a week that private pilot has become unresponsive during a flight. On Saturday, a pilot lost consciousness and his plane drifted into restricted airspace over the nation's capital. Fighter jets were also launched in that case and stayed with the small aircraft until it ran out of fuel and crashed Saturday into the Atlantic.

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