A small passenger plane that crashed on western Alaska on the way to the central community of Nome was on Friday on marine ice. All 10 people on board died, the authorities said.
Mike Salerno, a spokesman for the US Coast Guard, said the rescuers searched the last known place of aircraft by a helicopter when they noticed the wreck. They dropped two rescue swimmers to explore.
On Thursday afternoon, an aircraft with a Bering Air engine traveled from Unalekleet with nine passengers and pilots, according to the Alaska Ministry of Public Security.
Cessna caravan left unalaet at 14:37, and officials lost contact with him less than an hour later, said David Olson, director of the Bering Air Operation. There were light snow and fog, with a temperature of -8.3 C, according to the national meteorological service.
The officials lost contact with the plane less than an hour later. The Coast Guard said the plane disappeared about 48 kilometers southeast of the nome. The aircraft was 19 kilometers at sea, the agency said.
He worked with a maximum passenger capacity, according to the airplane description.
The plane slowed down, suddenly fell before the collision
The radar forensic data provided by the American Civil Air Patrol found that on Thursday at about 3:18 pm, the plane had “some event that made it a quick loss of altitude and a fast speed loss,” coastal guard, Lieutenant CMDR. Said Benjamin Mcintyre-Cble. “What is this event, I can’t speculate.”
Mcintyre-Cble said he was not aware of anyone’s signal in the aircraft. The aircraft carry a lot transmitter for an emergency. If exposed to seawater, the device sends a signal to Satellite, who then returns that message to the coastal guard to indicate that the aircraft may be in trouble. There were no such messages received by the Coast Guard, he said.
All 10 people on the plane were adults, and the flight was a regular trip, according to Lieutenant Ben Endres from the Alaska state soldiers.
An airplane disappearance Third major US air accident in eight days. Commercial jetliner and military helicopter collided near the capital of the state 29. January, Killing 67 people. AND A medical transport aircraft crashed In Philadelphia on January 31, killing six people on board and another person on the field.
Most Alaska communities are not associated with the main road system of the state, and aircraft are often the only option to travel any distance in rural areas, especially in winter. The region is prone to sudden snowy snow and strong winds in winter, and it was said to residents that they did not form their own tests because the weather was too dangerous.
Bering Air serves 32 villages on the western Alaska from the hub in noma, Kotzebue and Unalakleet. Most destinations receive twice a day scheduled flights from Monday to Saturday. Two aircraft seemed to search the network of the net on Friday morning, according to Falltradar24 flight service.
Local, state and federal agencies assisted in search, flying over the shares of water with ice over and watching miles of frozen tundra.
The National Guard was approved to fly a helicopter on Friday morning, and the coastal guard and others also participated in the efforts to search air. The Coast Guard planned to drop the float to help follow the movement of the sea ice, and the ground crew on the motor sleds started along the coast and further inside.
Unakleet is a community of about 690 people about 240 kilometers southeast of the nad and about 640 kilometers northwest of Anchorage. The village is on the Iditarod track, the route of the world’s most famous sled race, during which Mushers and their teams must cross the frozen Norton sound.
The city of Gold Rush, is south of the Arctic Circle and is known as the end point of Iditarod of 1,610 kilometers. The city said that the prayer vigil would be held on Friday for those who boarded the plane, friends and family and those involved in the efforts in the search.
American Senators from Alaska, Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, issued statements in which they said that their thoughts and prayers were with passengers, their families, saviors and community. Nick Nick Begich told us on the social platform X that he was ready to help Noma and the Alaska government Mike Dunleavy “in any way we can.”
