U.S. State Department comments on unresponsive plane

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The U.S. State Department said on Friday (September 5) that it was aware of an unresponsive plane flying over the Atlantic.

"As of 11:30 a.m. eastern today, two F-15 fighter jets under the direction of NORAD launched to investigate an unresponsive aircraft currently flying over the Atlantic Ocean. The aircraft had departed Rochester, New York, with the flight plan filed to land in Naples, Florida. The plane's occupants did not respond to attempts to communicate," State Department Deputy Spokeswoman Marie Harf told reporters.

"NORAD jets were used to monitor it. NORAD is in contact with the FAA. They'll provide more information on that. We have been in touch with the two countries over whose -- in whose -- flight space it went through, the Bahamas and Cuba. I don't have more details on those conversations, but obviously this is an issue of security and safety, so we were in touch as well," Harf added.

Cuba's civil aviation instit