by A crashed plane with three dead people inside was found in Alaska during the search for a flight that was missing on Thursday with 10 people on board, the coast guard said Friday.
The crashed plane was found around 34 miles southeast of Nome, the coast guard said in an update on X.
“3 people were found inside and reported. Our thoughts are with those affected by this tragic incident,” said the coast guard.
A Bering Air Cessna caravan with nine passengers and one pilot left on board from Unalakeet, a community on the east coast of Norton Sound, on Thursday and went to Nome about 140 miles to the west.
The flight left on Thursday at 2.37 p.m. from Unala small at 2:37 p.m., Bering Air Director of Operations David Olson told NBC branch Ktuu from Anchorage.
Radar analysis showed that around 15.18 hours Thursday “This plane experienced a kind of event, which means that they experience a fast loss of height and a fast speed loss,” Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. Benjamin McINTYRE-COBLE said on a Friday news conference.
Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy said earlier Friday that he and his wife Rose, “are deeply saddened by the disappearance of the Bering Air flight over Norton Sound.”
“Our prayers are with the passengers, the pilot and their loved ones in this difficult time,” Donleavy said in a statement.
Nome and Unalauweet, in the western part of Alaska, are not maintained by the State highway system, leaving air and water or snowmobile left and the most important forms of transport between the two are left behind.
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