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Search ongoing for missing medical flight from Bermuda to Boston as crews plan to scour ocean floor

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Raby, J. (2026, October 4). Search ongoing for missing medical flight from Bermuda to Boston as crews plan to scour ocean floor. Toronto Star. https://www.thestar.com/news/world/united-states/search-ongoing-for-missing-medical-flight-from-bermuda-to-boston-as-crews-plan-to-scour-ocean-floor/article_d44f01b2-d09d-59ae-9dbb-3ce360f3c2c3.html

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Toronto Star · collected 2026-10-04 · by John Raby

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As of Sunday, search efforts continued in the Atlantic Ocean off the Massachusetts coast for an air ambulance that went missing during its flight from Bermuda to Boston with six people on board. The U.S. Coast Guard reported losing contact with the Gulfstream G100 aircraft early Saturday morning. Searchers discovered a "debris field" near Nantucket later that day, prompting plans to explore the ocean floor for more clues.
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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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John Raby
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Topics

Bermuda Boston Massachusetts The Federal Aviation Administration the U.S. Coast Guard

Subjects

Bermuda GPE · 1× Bermudian NORP · 1× Boston GPE · 1× Canadians NORP · 1× Coast Guard ORG · 1× Massachusetts GPE · 1× Nantucket GPE · 1× The Federal Aviation Administration ORG · 1× the Coast Guard ORG · 1× the U.S. Coast Guard ORG · 1×

Narrative

A search continued Sunday off the Massachusetts coast for an air ambulance carrying six people that disappeared during a flight from Bermuda to Boston as authorities planned to comb the seabed floor, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
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Claims (3 extracted, 0 hedged)

A search continued Sunday off the Massachusetts coast for an air ambulance carrying six people that disappeared during a flight from Bermuda to Boston as authorities planned to comb the seabed floor, the U.S. Coast Guard said. asserted
Guard → continue → floor
The Federal Aviation Administration contacted the Coast Guard at 2 a.m. Saturday that it had lost contact with the Gulfstream G100 carrying four Canadians and two Bermudian nationals over the Atlantic Ocean. asserted
it → contact → Ocean
Searchers later Saturday found a “debris field” off the coast of Nantucket, Coast Guard Northeast District Rear Adm. Matt Lake said at a news conference Sunday. asserted
Lake → find → conference
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