A plane carrying 11 people crashed off the coast of Melbourne, Florida, the U.S. Coast Guard announced Wednesday.

For five hours, the 11 survivors of a plane crash off the coast of Florida floated on a life raft, with no means of calling for help and no idea if anyone was coming to save them.

Fifteen personnel with the U.S. Air Force Reserve 920th Rescue Wing scrambled to the scene in a plane and helicopter and plucked 11 survivors from a bobbing life raft after an aircraft crashed into t...