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Coast Guard searching for plane with 6 aboard that lost contact on a trip from Bermuda to Boston · Best of: Features

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  Crews find debris field from six person medical flight missing over the
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  Atlantic en route to Boston, This article
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  is being read by an automated voice generated by Everlett. Searchers found
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  a debris field off the Coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts, from an air
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  ambulance that was carrying six people when it vanished over the Atlantic
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  on Saturday during a flight from Bermuda to Boston, the US Coast
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  Guard said. Four Canadians and two Bermudian nationals were aboard, and their
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  next of kin were notified as the search continued. The Coast Guard
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  said, in a statement, it added that one of its cutters would
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  keep searching the water overnight and into Sunday. According to the Coast
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  Guard, the Federal Aviation Administration reported that the Gulf Street G one
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  hundred lost contact very early Saturday morning. Air traffic audio indicates That
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  it Mary have been coming in blind when a storm loomed ahead
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  shortly before it vanished. The pilot reported electrical problems and declared an
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  emergency as the jet approached the coast, according to Air Traffic Control
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  Audio, posted by Levaac.net. Roger, you said you're coming in blind. Is
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  that what you said? A controller can be heard asking the pilot.
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  That makes Marischiavo, who is a former Inspector General of the Transportation
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  Department, think the place may have loss its navigational instruments just as
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  a storm moved across its path on radar. The plane also descended
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  sharply from its cruising altitude of around twenty four thousand feet to
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  around ten thousand feet, according to preliminary data from flight tracking site
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  Flight Radar twenty four. Something bad happened with this big drop, and
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  they flew into this big storm. It's a terrible place to have
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  a loss of your instruments and be flying blind, said Schiavo, who
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  is an aviation attorney. It's very easy to get disoriented and not
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  know if you're turning, climbing, descending, etcetera. The Canadian Registered Air Ambulance
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  jet had four crew members and two passengers aboard when it departed
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  Bermuda's L F. Wade International Airport for The nighttime flight to Massachusetts,
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  according to a statement from the Bermuda Airport's operator, Skyport. Transport Canada
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  was closely monitoring and working with authorities on search and rescue efforts,
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  the country's Minister of Transport Stephen McKinnon said on the social platform
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  X. The National Transportation Safety Board said it was gathering information about
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  the situation, but it did not say immediately if it would investigate.
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  Associate Press reporter Laura Turbai in Little Rock, Arkansas, a core member
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  for the Associated Press Report for America Statehouse News Initiative, contributed to
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  this report. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that
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  places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues.