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U.S. Coast Guard searches for six people off Nantucket
The U.S. Coast Guard and regional emergency response teams are continuing their operation to find six people aboard a missing medical evacuation aircraft off Nantucket Island, Massachusetts. A confirmed aircraft wreckage site is being examined about 32 kilometers offshore at a depth of 24.4 to 27.4 meters.
The search and rescue operation led by the U.S. Coast Guard and regional emergency response teams to find six people aboard a missing medical evacuation aircraft off Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, is continuing.
Matt Lake, commander of the U.S. Coast Guard's Northeast District, said teams had located a wreckage site about 32 kilometers off the Nantucket coast at a depth of 24.4 to 27.4 meters. The wreckage was confirmed to belong to the missing aircraft.
Teams scanned 7,355 square kilometers
Alongside Coast Guard personnel, Massachusetts officials and air rescue units from the New York National Guard took part in the search. Lake said the teams had worked continuously for approximately 53.5 hours.
During that time, an area of approximately 7,355 square kilometers was scanned. Searches in the area where the wreckage was found continued throughout the weekend.
The aircraft carried four Canadians and two Bermudians
The Federal Aviation Administration reported that contact had been lost with a Gulfstream G100 aircraft operated by Latitude Air Ambulance. There were six people aboard, including four Canadian and two Bermudian nationals.
The search and rescue operation for the aircraft, which was traveling from Bermuda to Boston, began at 2 a.m. local time on Saturday.
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