Coast Guard continues search for six people aboard missing aircraft
Bermuda Boston flight
The U.S. Coast Guard located wreckage of an air ambulance that was missing.
The plane disappeared during a flight from Bermuda to Boston.
Debris of the plane was located in the waters near Nantucket, Massachusetts.
Six passengers were on board the Canadian registered aircraft.
The passenger list comprised four Canadians and two Bermudians.
This was an air ambulance that provided a medical transportation service.
The Coast Guard launched a search for the missing aircraft.
Federal Aviation Administration had reported the missing contact with the aircraft.
The aircraft was Gulfstream G100 belonging to Latitude Air Ambulance.
The aircraft took off from Bermuda for Boston on Saturday morning.
It is stated that families of the passengers were informed.
The Coast Guard kept looking into the nearby areas.
The cutter of Coast Guard was also engaged in the search process.
The air traffic control tapes provide information about the incident.
The pilot is said to have reported electrical issues before the disappearance.
The pilot also issued an emergency on the flight.
The controller inquired whether the pilot was operating the plane without navigation systems.
The initial data from the plane revealed that there was a sudden loss in altitude.
The airplane had dropped from an altitude of about 24,000 feet.
It had also lost thousands of feet very quickly.
An aviation expert has associated the incident with instrument issues.
There was also a reported storm on the path of the airplane.
But no cause has yet been determined by authorities.
The search for the six individuals is still ongoing.
