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Coast Guard searching for plane with 6 aboard that lost contact on trip from Bermuda to Boston

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The Associated Press. (2026, October 3). Coast Guard searching for plane with 6 aboard that lost contact on trip from Bermuda to Boston. Toronto Star. https://www.thestar.com/news/world/united-states/coast-guard-searching-for-plane-with-6-aboard-that-lost-contact-on-trip-from-bermuda-to-boston/article_914ac596-7760-53d3-b8af-18de3d1bcb4a.html

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Toronto Star · collected 2026-10-03 · by The Associated Press

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The U.S. Coast Guard is conducting a search off Nantucket, Mass., for a Canadian-registered air ambulance jet that lost contact during its flight from Bermuda to Boston. The plane had six people on board—four crew members and two passengers—when it departed L.F. Wade International Airport in Bermuda overnight.
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Story summary

On Saturday, a Gulfstream G100 aircraft carrying six people vanished while en route from Bermuda to Boston's Logan International Airport, losing communication with the FAA around 1 AM local time. The plane took off at approximately 11:41 PM ET on Friday and was scheduled to land in Boston by about 1:30 AM Saturday. Shortly before its disappearance, the aircraft reportedly dropped from 24,000 feet to 11,000 feet within minutes, according to flight-tracking data. The US Coast Guard launched an extensive search off the coast of Nantucket using air and sea crews, including teams from Air Station Cape Cod and Brant Point in Nantucket. Latitude Air Ambulance, based in Hamilton, is the operator of the missing aircraft.

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📰 Missing Plane Off Nantucket
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Topics

Bermuda Boston Mass. NANTUCKET the U.S. Coast Guard

Subjects

Bermuda GPE · 3× NANTUCKET GPE · 2× Boston GPE · 1× Canadian NORP · 1× Mass. GPE · 1× Massachusetts GPE · 1× Skyport ORG · 1× the U.S. Coast Guard ORG · 1×

Narrative

A plane with six people aboard lost contact during a flight from Bermuda to Boston, and the U.S. Coast Guard said it was searching Saturday for the missing aircraft off the coast of Nantucket.
framing: mixed · carried by 1 article(s) · first seen 2026-10-03

Claims (2 extracted, 1 hedged)

A plane with six people aboard lost contact during a flight from Bermuda to Boston, and the U.S. Coast Guard said it was searching Saturday for the missing aircraft off the coast of Nantucket. asserted
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The Canadian-registered air ambulance jet had four crew members and two passengers aboard when it departed Bermuda’s L.F. Wade International Airport overnight for the flight to Massachusetts, according to a statement from the Bermuda airport’s operator, Skyport. uncertain
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