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The \u2060United States coastguard has found debris from an air ambulance off the shore of Massachusetts\u2019s Nantucket Island.<\/p>\n
The US Federal Aviation Administration told the coastguard early on Saturday that it had lost contact with a Gulfstream jet travelling from Bermuda to Boston.<\/p>\n
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Several hours later, the coastguard said in a statement that it \u201clocated a debris field that has been confirmed to be associated with the missing aircraft\u201d.<\/p>\n
The coastguard said that one of its cutters would keep searching the water overnight and into Sunday for six people who were on board.<\/p>\n
The Canadian-registered air ambulance jet had four crew members and two passengers on board when it departed Bermuda\u2019s LF Wade International airport overnight for the flight to Massachusetts, according to a statement from the Bermuda airport\u2019s operator, Skyport.<\/p>\n
Canada\u2019s Minister of Transport Steven MacKinnon said in a social media post that four Canadians were on the plane.<\/p>\n
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\u201cWe are closely monitoring the situation and are working with the relevant authorities as search and rescue \u200cefforts continue,\u201d MacKinnon wrote.<\/p>\n
The other two people on board were Bermudian nationals, the coastguard said.<\/p>\n
The aircraft, registered to Latitude Air Ambulance, departed Bermuda at 12:41am local time (03:41 GMT), according to data from flight tracking website FlightAware.<\/p>\n
The plane was flying at 24,000 feet (7,300 metres) for much of the flight before descending 13,000ft (3,960 metres) in about two minutes shortly before flight controllers lost contact, data showed.<\/p>\n
Last communication<\/p>\n
Air traffic control audio posted by LiveATC.net offered a glimpse of the flight\u2019s final communications before it went missing.<\/p>\n
\u201cRoger, you said you\u2019re coming in blind. Is that what you said?\u201d a controller can be heard asking the pilot.<\/p>\n
The pilot\u2019s transmission could not be heard in the recording. The controller later confirmed the pilot was declaring an emergency just before losing contact with the plane.<\/p>\n
The Bermuda government is in contact with US \u200cauthorities and families of the passengers, Bermuda Premier David Burt wrote in a statement posted on Instagram.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are praying that all six people will \u200cbe \u200cfound safe,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n
Latitude Air Ambulance is based in Ontario, Canada, and provides medical evacuation services. The company \u2060did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Six people were on board the Canadian-registered air ambulance jet travelling from Bermuda to Boston. Published On 3…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":920084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[89970,49,48,44,772],"class_list":["post-920083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-bermuda","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=920083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/920084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}