Wreckage of missing Alaska plane found; no survivors

The wreckage of a tiny commuter level missing successful Alaska has been found, Coast Guard officials said Friday. All 10 radical aboard the level – 9 passengers and a aviator – are dead, according to media reports.

Coast Guard spokesperson Mike Salerno said rescuers saw the clang from their chopper arsenic they flew implicit the Cessna 208 Caravan’s past known location. Two rescue swimmers were lowered to analyse the scene, Salerno said.

Several groups were progressive successful the hunt for the plane, including the Alaska State Troopers the U.S. Coast Guard, Alaska Air National Guard, Alaska Army National Guard and section hunt teams.

Authorities said a Jayhawk chopper was brought successful Friday greeting to assistance with the search.

The FBI provided method assistance, including cellphone investigation to assistance find the aircraft.

The Bering Air formation was traveling successful occidental Alaska, conscionable southbound of the Artic Circle, from Unalakleet to Nome. Alaska State Troopers said they were notified Thursday astatine 4 p.m. astir the missing plane.

The U.S. Coast Guard said connected X the flight’s past known presumption was 19 kilometers offshore.

Early Friday, the Nome occurrence section posted connected X that it was conducting a crushed search, but upwind and visibility conditions were hampering the department's aerial search. The section urged radical not to signifier their ain hunt parties due to the fact that of hazardous upwind conditions successful the region, which is prone to abrupt snowfall squalls and precocious winds.

Airplanes are often the lone method of proscription betwixt agrarian Alaskan villages.

Nome is well-known arsenic the past halt successful the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.

This is the 3rd large U.S. aviation incidental successful caller days. On Jan. 29, a commercialized airliner and an Army chopper collided adjacent Reagan National Airport extracurricular Washington. Two days later, a aesculapian transport level crashed into a Philadelphia vicinity soon aft takeoff, sidesplitting six radical onboard and different idiosyncratic connected the street.

Some accusation for this study came from The Associated Press.