Debris found as US Coast Guard search for missing medical plane carrying six people
What happened
The US Coast Guard found debris from a medical transport plane carrying six people off Nantucket after it lost contact en route to Boston.
The Gulfstream G100 lost contact just after 01:00 local time on Saturday, and the Coast Guard continued searching overnight.
The aircraft carried four Canadian nationals and two Bermudian nationals, whose next of kin have been notified.
Flight data showed the aircraft dropped from around 7,300m to 3,300m before communications stopped, according to FlightAware.
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- 2026-10-04 05:58 UTCThe Hindu · thehindu.com ↗
- 2026-10-04 14:00 UTCGuardian · theguardian.com ↗
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