A helicopter with three people aboard crashed Wednesday in Biscayne Bay near Key Biscayne, Florida, leaving one person dead and two injured, according to the U.S. Coast Guard and Miami-area agencies^3,4.

WFLA, citing the Coast Guard, said crews responded near Bill Baggs State Park at 11:26 a.m. and that two people were taken to a hospital⁴. WSVN, reporting from the water off Nixon Beach, said a small helicopter was in the water southwest of Key Biscayne just after 11:50 a.m. and that two survivors were to be taken to an area hospital with conditions unknown³.

The Guardian reported the crash in Biscayne Bay east of Miami Executive Airport and said the Miami-Dade sheriff’s office confirmed a coordinated response with Miami-Dade Fire Rescue, City of Miami Fire, and Key Biscayne Fire Rescue¹. ABC-owned stations carried an earlier item that a helicopter was down and that Miami-Dade Fire Rescue was on scene, without the later casualty figures².

WSVN said its helicopter saw yellow floats in the water off the 1200 block of Crandon Boulevard and later a yellow tarp covering a person believed to have died³. Occupants were not identified in the reports reviewed, and a cause was not given^3,4.

What remains unknown includes the names and conditions of the injured, whether the flight was commercial or private, and what investigators will say about how the aircraft went down^2,3,4.