Six presumed dead after medical transport plane disappears off US coast
The operator of a medical transport flight from Bermuda to Boston says all six people aboard are presumed dead after the aircraft disappeared off the US coast.
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The US Coast Guard ended its search for survivors off Nantucket, Massachusetts, on Sunday evening, the BBC reported. Authorities had found a debris field confirmed to be from the aircraft on Saturday evening. [1]
The Gulfstream G-100 was travelling from Bermuda to Boston when contact was lost just after 01:00 local time on Saturday, according to the BBC. Four Canadian nationals and two Bermudian nationals were aboard. Latitude Air Ambulance said they were four of its team members, a patient and the patient’s family escort. [1]
Latitude said recovery efforts and investigations were continuing. It declined to speculate about what happened; the cause has not been established. [1]
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