Coast Guard searching for plane with 6 aboard that lost contact on trip from Bermuda to Boston

The Gulfstream air ambulance was carrying six people from Bermuda to Boston when the FAA lost contact with it early Saturday morning. The post Update: Coast Guard finds debris from missing Boston-bound medical plane off Nantucket appeared first on Boston.com. (AP) — A plane with six people aboard lost contact during a flight from Bermuda to Boston, and the U.S.

Coast Guard said it was searching early Saturday for the missing aircraft off the coast of Nantucket. The Coast Guard said the Federal Aviation Administration reported that the Gulfstream G100 had lost contact very early Saturday morning. The search for the jet included crews in the air and on the water, the Coast Guard said.

The aircraft had taken off from Bermuda’s L.F. Wade International Airport for a nearly two-hour, late-night flight to Boston Logan International Airport, according to FlightAware. An Ontario air ambulance carrying six people, four of them Canadians, has gone missing off the coast of the United States.

Coast Guard said it launched a search mission after the Federal Aviation Administration lost contact with the plane early Saturday as it was travelling from Bermuda to Boston. Air and ground crews are searching off the coast of Nantucket, an island about 150 kilometres southeast of Boston, the coast guard wrote in a social media post. The search includes the use of two planes, a search a rescue lifeboat, a helicopter, and cutter.

The aircraft, a Gulfstream G100 jet, belongs to Latitude Air Ambulance, a Hamilton-based medical evacuation company. Clarence Togeretz, operations manager for Latitude Air Ambulance, told The Canadian Press the missing aircraft was transporting a patient and their family member, with two pilots and two medical staff on board. The four crew are Canadian, he said, while the two passengers are Bermuda nationals.

Map of the air ambulance jet flight from Bermuda that disappeared off the U.S. CITYNEWS Togeretz said Latitude had been tracking the flight and lost contact with it around 1:30 a.m. Saturday as it was approaching Boston.