Medical aircraft with 6 on board lacking off Massachusetts coast

US authorities are looking for six individuals after a medical aircraft certain for Boston, Massachusetts went lacking early Saturday morning.

The Federal Aviation Administration advised the BBC that it misplaced contact with the Gulfstream G-100 aircraft and put out a search and rescue discover simply after 1:00 native time (6:00 GMT).

An air and water search is underway off the coast of Nantucket, a Massachusetts island, in keeping with the US Coast Guard’s Northeast District.

The aircraft departed from Bermuda’s L.F. Wade Worldwide Airport at 23:40 native time, in keeping with flight knowledge from FlightAware, and was slated to land at Boston’s Logan Worldwide at 1:30 EDT (6:30 GMT).

Based on the tail quantity launched by the Coast Guard, the aircraft belonged to Latitude Air Ambulances, an organization that gives worldwide medical flights for sufferers returning dwelling.

FlightAware’s tracker exhibits the plane considerably dropped in altitude earlier than its communications went darkish, plummeting from round 7,300m (24,000ft) to three,300m (11,000ft).