A search is underway after a jet aircraft believed to be carrying six people disappeared off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts, early Saturday morning while travelling from Bermuda to Boston. The missing aircraft is a Gulfstream G100, a twin-engine jet, with the Canadian based registration G100 C-GRJP. According to the Canadian Civil Aircraft Register it is owned by Ontario-based Latitude Air Ambulance, a medical transportation company that moves patients for treatment.
A map produced by Flightradar24, which monitors air traffic in real time, showed the aircraft's last recorded location. According to the FAA, six people were on the flight, which left L.F. Wade International Airport in Bermuda and was heading for Boston’s Logan International Airport.
The identities of those on board were not immediately available. However, Toronto's City News, citing Clarence Togeretz, Latitude Air Ambulance's operations manager, reported that four crew members on the flight are Canadian while the two passengers are Bermuda nationals. Newsweek contacted Latitude Air Ambulance for comment on Saturday via email.
Coast Guard Northeast district confirmed to Newsweek in a statement Saturday that they are searching with multiple assets for the aircraft. "Coast Guard air and surface crews are searching an area off the coast of Nantucket," the statement said. Coast Guard assets responding include: Data from FlightAware, a flight tracking platform, shows the aircraft departed from Bermuda at 11:41 p.m.
The final radar ping was received at 1:23 a.m. ET, shortly before the aircraft was expected to land. Flight data indicates the aircraft descended by over 9,000 feet in a period of two minutes.
"The FAA issued a Search and Rescue Alert Notice (ALNOT) for a Gulfstream G-100 around 1:20 a.m. local time on Saturday, Oct. 3.," FAA public affairs specialist Rick Breitenfeldt told Newsweek in an emailed statement Saturday. "The flight departed from L.F. Wade International Airport in Bermuda and was headed to Boston Logan International Airport." "The FAA is coordinating with the Rescue Coordination Center and the U.S.
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