US Coast Guard suspends search for people on crashed medical aircraft
Authorities say the aircraft carried four Canadian crew members and two Bermudian passengers on a medical flight to Boston.
- On Sunday, the United States Coast Guard suspended its search for six people aboard a medical transport jet after discovering a debris field off the coast of Nantucket.
- Early Saturday, the Gulfstream G100, known as Heartbeat, departed Bermuda for Boston Logan International Airport with four Canadian crew members, a Bermudan patient, and an escort before contact was lost.
- Over two and a half days, crews searched nearly 4,445 square miles, eventually locating debris from the aircraft in waters about 80 to 90 feet deep.
- Latitude Air Ambulance stated the six aboard Heartbeat are "presumed to have died" and confirmed the company will cooperate fully with recovery and investigation efforts.
- Massachusetts State Police intend to resume the search for the six missing individuals once weather conditions improve and seas calm down, according to local sources.
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MA State Police to resume search for missing passengers after plane crashes off Nantucket
Massachusetts State Police will likely resume the search for six missing people after their plane's debris field was found off the coast of Nantucket during the weekend.
All six on board presumed dead after air ambulance went missing off US coast
BOSTON — Six people aboard a medical evacuation plane that went missing on Saturday while airlifting a patient from Bermuda to Boston, Massachusetts, are presumed dead, according to a statement from the flight's operator.Four members of the Latitude Air Ambulance team – two pilots and two medical crew – were aboard the aircraft, alongside a patient and the patient’s family escort.The US Coast Guard suspended its search at sunset on Sunday after …
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A medical transport aircraft has disappeared off the United States coast, with six passengers presumed dead, as authorities called off a search for survivors overnight.The US Coast Guard ended its search in waters off Nantucket, Massachusetts, after crews discovered wreckage believed to have come from the missing aircraft – which left Bermuda for Boston and never arrived.Latitude Air Ambulance, the Canadian company operating the flight, said the…
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