Medical aircraft with 6 on board lacking off Massachusetts coast
US authorities are looking for six folks after a medical aircraft sure for Boston, Massachusetts went lacking early Saturday morning.
The Federal Aviation Administration advised the BBC that it misplaced contact with the Gulfstream G-100 aircraft and put out a search and rescue discover simply after 1:00 native time (6:00 GMT).
An air and water search is underway off the coast of Nantucket, a Massachusetts island, in response to the US Coast Guard’s Northeast District.
The aircraft departed from Bermuda’s L.F. Wade International Airport at 23:40 native time, in response to flight information from FlightAware, and was slated to land at Boston’s Logan International at 1:30 EDT (6:30 GMT).
According to the tail quantity launched by the Coast Guard, the aircraft belonged to Latitude Air Ambulances, an organization that gives transnational medical flights for sufferers returning residence.
FlightAware’s tracker reveals the plane considerably dropped in altitude earlier than its communications went darkish, plummeting from round 7,300m (24,000ft) to three,300m (11,000ft).
