A plane located 10 people via Norton Sound in Alaska, south of the Arctic circle on Thursday afternoon, and rescuers at night looked at any sign of the plane.
Bering Air Caravan was heading from Unalakleet to Nome with nine passengers and pilots, according to the Ministry of Public Safety in Alaska. The authorities were working to determine the latest known coordinates.
Unalakleet is a community of about 690 people in West Alaska, about 240 km southeast NNE and 640 km northwest of Morsi.
The disappearance represents the third main accident in American aviation in eight days. A commercial lining and a US army helicopter collided near the nation’s capital on January 29, killing 67 people. A medical transport plane crashed in Philadelphia on January 31, killing the six people on the plane and another person on the ground.
Cessna Caravan Unalakleet left at 2:37 pm local time, and officials lost contact with them after less than an hour, according to David Olson, Bering Air Operations Director. The plane was 19 km outside, according to the US Coast Guard.
“Employees at Bering Air are working hard to collect details, and get help in emergency, search and rescue situations,” Olson said.
American Coast Guard to join the search
Bering Air offers 32 villages in West Alaska from axes in Nome, Kotzebue and Unalakleet. Most of the destinations receive schedules twice daily from Monday to Saturday.
Aircraft are often the only option to travel to any distance in Alaska countryside, especially in the winter.
The volunteer Nome Fire Department said in a social media statement that the ground crews were searching across the coast, from Nome to Topkok.
“Because of the weather and clarity, we are limited to research at the present time,” he said. People were told not to form their search parties because the weather was very dangerous.
In an update early on Friday, the administration said that “the crews are still searching on the ground, and they are suffering from as much space as possible,” but “we have no updated information on the site of the missing plane.”
The American Coast Guard plane crew is expected to discuss the last known site of the missing plane. It was also the National Guard and the auxiliary forces in the research, according to the fire department.
It was -8.3 ° C at Unalakleet around the takeoff, according to the US National Weather service. There was light snowfall and fog.
The names of people were not released on board.
Sleep, a Rush Gold City, south of the Arctic circle, is known as the final point of the Swall dog race with an area of 1610 km.