Radar showed rapid descent before Bering Air flight disappeared near Nome
Radar at the time showed that at about 3:18 p.m. Thursday, “this aircraft experienced some type of event, which caused them to experience a rapid loss in elevation and a rapid loss in speed,” Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. Benjamin McIntyre-Coble said during a media briefing Friday. “What that event is I can’t speculate to.”
The search in northwest Alaska intensified Friday for a plane that disappeared with 10 people on board, officials there say.
Searchers in a helicopter found the wreckage of the single-engine plane on sea ice 12 miles offshore, according to the Coast Guard said.
Flight records indicated that Bering Air flight 455, a Cessna Caravan, was flying at around 1,400 feet when it stopped ...
A Bering Air commuter plane with 10 people on board went missing en route to Nome from Unalakleet, Alaska. The Coast Guard found the plane but only three bodies inside. The aircraft experienced a ...
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An extensive search for a Bering Sea plane carrying 10 people, including the pilot, is ongoing after it went missing late ...
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