Medical Plane With Six Missing Off Nantucket After Rapid Descent
Coast Guard searches Atlantic after Gulfstream G100 vanishes on Bermuda-to-Boston flight.
KEY POINTS
- Gulfstream G100 medical plane vanished Saturday on Bermuda-Boston route with six aboard.
- Aircraft descended ~13,000 feet in two minutes before losing radar contact at ~1:20 a.m.
- Pilot declared emergency at 12:46 a.m.; audio suggests possible electrical or navigation issues.
- Coast Guard searching Atlantic off Nantucket with air and surface assets.
- Four Canadians and two Bermuda passengers on board; no wreckage found yet.
A Gulfstream G100 medical transport aircraft carrying six people disappeared early Saturday off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts, while en route from Bermuda to Boston. The plane, operated by Canadian company Latitude Air Ambulance, departed L.F. Wade International Airport at 12:41 a.m. and flew at 24,000 feet for over an hour before plunging roughly 13,000 feet in two minutes, according to FlightAware data.
The pilot declared an emergency at 12:46 a.m., and audio captures a controller asking if the aircraft was "coming in blind." The Federal Aviation Administration lost radar and radio contact around 1:20 a.m. and issued a Search and Rescue alert. The aircraft never reached Logan International Airport, where fire crews had been staged for an expected landing.
“"You're coming in blind. Is that what you said?"”
The U.S. Coast Guard Northeast District deployed aircraft, helicopters, and vessels to search the Atlantic waters near Nantucket. On board were four Canadians — two pilots and two medical personnel — plus a patient and a companion picked up in Bermuda, according to Latitude Flight Operations Director Clarence Togeretz. The company lost contact with the plane around 1:30 a.m. and notified authorities after it failed to arrive.
The missing jet, registration C-GJRP, was built in 1996 and registered to Latitude Air Ambulance in 2018. The company operates four Gulfstream G100s alongside other aircraft types. No wreckage has been located, and the cause of the disappearance remains unknown.
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