An urgent search has been launched for a small Bering Air Caravan plane that vanished over Alaska overnight.
The plane was carrying 10 people on board, who were travelling to Nome from Unalakleet in western Alaska on Thursday night when their aircraft vanished off radars.
Crews are frantically working to establish the plane’s last coordinates, but weather conditions in the area are so poor that it has limited the ability to launch an air search.
The small plane was travelling to Nome from Unalakleet in western Alaska on Thursday night when it vanished off radars.
Exact coordinates for the aircraft are still being established, with the Coast Guard deployed to the area to specialized equipment that can ‘locate objects and people through no visibility conditions’, officials said.
Authorities said their last known contact with the pilot was when he told Anchorage Air Traffic Control that he intended to ‘enter a holding pattern’ as he waited for the runway to be cleared.
