The U.S. Coast Guard is searching for a Gulfstream jet carrying six people that lost contact with flight controllers Saturday morning on its way to Boston from the island of Bermuda.<\/p>\n
The Coast Guard says air and surface crews have launched in search of the aircraft, a Gulfstream G100 jet.<\/p>\n
The plane was carrying out a medical evacuation in Bermuda, said Clarence Togeretz, the director of flight operations at Latitude Air Ambulance, which operates the plane.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe always get rather concerned when our crew doesn\u2019t report to us in a timely manner,\u201d he told NBC News. \u201cBut I will say that again, optimistically and positively, that doesn\u2019t mean that the worst has happened.\u201d<\/p>\n
Togeretz added that Latitude Air Ambulance has an emergency response plan in place \u201cabsolutely for anything that might occur to any of our missions.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Massachusetts Port Authority, which operates Boston Logan International Airport, said the aircraft did not arrive as scheduled. A spokesperson said: \u201cOur thoughts are with those on board and their loved ones as the search continues.\u201d<\/p>\n
Air traffic control tower audio from Boston, obtained by NBC News, appears to indicate that controllers asked the aircraft if it was \u201ccoming in blind.\u201d<\/p>\n
Controllers later ask another plane to \u201cattempt contact\u201d with the jet. It is unclear whether that attempt was successful.<\/p>\n
The current search area is \u201coff the coast of Nantucket,\u201d the Coast Guard Northeast District said in an update on X.<\/p>\n
Emergency services audio obtained by NBC News asked vessels to keep a \u201csharp lookout\u201d for any signs of a \u201cpossible aircraft in the water.\u201d Data from Flightradar24 showed a number of aircraft searching south of the island.<\/p>\n
The Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement that it issued a search-and-rescue notice for the jet at 1:20 a.m. ET on Saturday, and is coordinating with the Coast Guard and Rescue Coordination Center to locate the aircraft.<\/p>\n
Bermuda is a British overseas territory in the North Atlantic, about 650 miles from North Carolina.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The U.S. Coast Guard is searching for a Gulfstream jet carrying six people that lost contact with flight…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":869500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-869499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=869499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/869500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}