Air Ambulance Goes Missing on Flight from Bermuda to Boston
The US Coast Guard has launched a search for an air ambulance plane that disappeared while flying from Bermuda to Boston. Crews are focusing their search near Nantucket.
The United States Coast Guard has announced it is searching for a plane serving as an air ambulance that went missing during a flight from Bermuda to Boston.
According to the Coast Guard, the aircraft lost contact or was no longer visible in the vicinity of Nantucket, an island off the coast of Massachusetts. Both air and surface crews have been deployed to comb the area in an effort to locate the missing plane as quickly as possible.
No further details have yet been released regarding the number of people who may have been aboard the aircraft, including patients or crew, nor about the circumstances that led to its disappearance. The search operation remains ongoing, with authorities coordinating resources to cover a wider stretch of the Atlantic Ocean near the island.
Air ambulances are typically used to transport patients requiring urgent medical care, and the disappearance of such an aircraft raises concerns for the safety of those who may have been on board. No confirmed information about the cause of the incident or the current status of the plane has been made public so far.
