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Six missing after medical jet disappears
Searchers ended a sixty-six-hour effort after debris from a medical flight was found off Nantucket.
What happened
A Gulfstream G100 medical transport aircraft carrying six people disappeared during an overnight flight from Bermuda to Boston. The Coast Guard found debris off Nantucket and ended its search after sixty-six hours, while authorities notified relatives of those aboard.
Numbers
- 6 peopleAboard the medical flight — Four Canadians and two Bermudians
- 66 hoursLength of the Coast Guard search — Search later suspended
- 4 CanadiansCanadian nationals aboard — Two others were Bermudian
Questions
- Who was aboard the aircraft?
- The flight carried two pilots, two medical staff, a patient and the patient’s relative; four were Canadian and two Bermudian.
- Why was the flight travelling north?
- Latitude Air Ambulances had flown to Bermuda to collect a patient returning home and that person’s relative for the Boston-bound journey.
- When did controllers lose contact?
- The FAA lost contact shortly after one o’clock local time, then issued a search-and-rescue alert at about one twenty.
- Which teams joined the initial search?
- Air and surface crews from Cape Cod, Nantucket and the cutter William Sparling joined the initial search off Nantucket.
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The catch
Finding debris confirmed it came from the aircraft, but coverage gives no cause for the disappearance.
No findings on the loss were released.