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.”
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 ...
The Bering Air single-engine turboprop plane was traveling from Unalakleet on Thursday afternoon with nine passengers and a ...
A spokesperson for the U.S. Coast Guard said rescuers were searching the aircraft’s last known location by helicopter when ...
A small commuter plane that crashed in western Alaska on its way to the hub community of Nome was located Friday on sea ice and all 10 people on board died, authorities said.
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