Coast Guard crews and partner agencies searched a debris field Sunday for six people aboard an air ambulance that disappeared during a flight from Bermuda to Boston. The debris field sits about 20 miles off Nantucket.
The debris has been confirmed as belonging to the missing Gulfstream G100, but officials said the operation remains a search-and-rescue mission focused on locating the people aboard. No survivors had been found as of a Sunday morning Coast Guard briefing.
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“Right now, we’re really just focused on finding the people,” a Coast Guard official said. Officials declined to describe the recovered wreckage in detail, saying the material had been secured for a future investigation.
The Federal Aviation Administration notified the Coast Guard at about 2 a.m. Saturday that it had lost contact with the Canadian-registered aircraft while the jet was traveling from Bermuda to Boston. The aircraft carried four Canadian nationals and two Bermudian nationals, the Coast Guard said.
Air traffic recordings indicated the pilot reported electrical problems and declared an emergency as the aircraft approached the Massachusetts coast. Flight-tracking data showed the jet descending sharply from its cruising altitude before contact was lost. Officials said Sunday it was too early to speculate about what caused the incident.
The Coast Guard said crews had searched 1,644 square miles over about 27 hours by Saturday evening. The effort has included fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, motor lifeboats and the Coast Guard cutter William Sparling, along with aircraft from the New York Air National Guard’s 106th Rescue Wing.
The water near the debris field is about 80 to 90 feet deep, officials said. The Coast Guard was working with Massachusetts authorities to deploy sonar-equipped vessels to search the seabed. Officials said there was no indication that a flight recorder had been found.
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