(AP) -- LUDINGTON, Mich. - The U.S. Coast Guard says a medical transport plane carrying five crashed in Lake Michigan and one person has been rescued.

Petty Officer Nathaniel Parks said Friday the plane went down shortly after 10 a.m. a few miles off the shore of Ludington. A passenger was rescued shortly after noon.

Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Elizabeth Isham Cory says the Cessna 206 left Alma Friday morning en route to Rochester, Minn. Alma is in central Michigan about 150 miles northwest of Detroit.

Parks says the crash was reported by a witness as well as a distress signal from the plane via satellite.

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