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Mother and son from Bermuda named as passengers on missing medical flight from Bermuda to Boston

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Marcelo, P. (2026, October 5). Mother and son from Bermuda named as passengers on missing medical flight from Bermuda to Boston. Toronto Star. https://www.thestar.com/news/world/united-states/mother-and-son-from-bermuda-named-as-passengers-on-missing-medical-flight-from-bermuda-to-boston/article_b779c36c-90de-5846-afbc-83f3f92dd6c5.html

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Toronto Star · collected 2026-10-05 · by Philip Marcelo

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Marilyn Lavonne Bean and her son Sergio Wayne Lottimore from Bermuda were identified as the two passengers on an air ambulance that crashed near Nantucket while flying from Bermuda to Boston early Saturday morning. The Gulfstream G100 aircraft, which also carried four crew members, went missing around 1 a.m., with Bermuda being approximately 750 to 780 miles southeast of Boston.
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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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Philip Marcelo
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Topics

Bermuda Bermudian Boston Gulfstream Massachusetts

Subjects

Bermuda GPE · 4× Boston ORG · 2× Bermudian NORP · 1× Gulfstream ORG · 1× Marilyn Lavonne Bean PERSON · 1× Massachusetts GPE · 1× Nantucket GPE · 1× Sergio Wayne Lottimore PERSON · 1×

Narrative

Bermuda police said Marilyn Lavonne Bean, 66, and Sergio Wayne Lottimore, 41, both Bermudian nationals, were aboard a Gulfstream G100 with four crew members when it went missing off Nantucket around 1 a.m. Saturday.
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Claims (2 extracted, 0 hedged)

The two people aboard an air ambulance that crashed in the waters off Massachusetts over the weekend while flying from Bermuda to Boston were identified Monday as a mother from Bermuda and her son. asserted
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Bermuda police said Marilyn Lavonne Bean, 66, and Sergio Wayne Lottimore, 41, both Bermudian nationals, were aboard a Gulfstream G100 with four crew members when it went missing off Nantucket around 1 a.m. Saturday. asserted
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