From where missing plane found ?
Missing small plane has been found about 34 miles southeast of Nome that was being searched in Alaska. No a single person survived in the crash. Bering Air Craft with 10 people including a piolet board got missing in Alaska on Thursday ( Feb 6). Alaska Department of Public Safety reported that the Cessna 208B Grand Caravan, was travelling from Unalakleet to Nome – cities in western Alaska separated by the Norton Sound inlet. It was about 12 miles offshore when its position was disappeared. The missing plane had been searched by the alaska air national guard team with HC-130 plane on Thursday night, but due to bad weather helicopter had to return before arriving the crashed area.
Records indicate the craft departed Unalakleef at 2:37 pm and Last transmission was received at 3:16 pm over Norton Sound flight tracker data showed. It lost communication around 3:20 pm, just before arriving in Nome. The US Coast Guard found the wreckage of flight. Rescue teams found all the bodies have been recovered and taken to Nome.
All families of passengers in the missing plane “have been informed. The passengers on the craft are all adults. Before the incident The Nome Volunteer Fire Department mentioned in a Facebook post that the pilot told Air Traffic Control “he intended to enter a holding pattern while waiting for the runway to be cleared.”
The craft did not emit an Emergency Locator Transmitter distress signal that would be triggered by a crash or exposure to sea water, McIntyre-Coble said. “Our heartfelt condolences are with those affected by this tragic incident,” the U.S. Coast Guard in Alaska said.
About Ten People Died In The Crash
- Donnell Erickson, 58, of Nome
- Liane Ryan, 52, of Wasilla
- Chad Antil, 34, of Nome ( Pilot )
- Andrew Gonzalez, 30, of Wasilla
- Jadee Moncur, 52, of Eagle River
- Kameron Hartvigson, 41, of Anchorage
- Talaluk Katchatag, 34, of Unalakleet
- Carol Mooers, 48, of Unalakleet
- Ian Hofmann, 45, of Anchorage
- Rhone Baumgartner, 46, of Anchorage
Among these all Rhone and Kameron were employees of the organization according to Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium. Both were going to Unalakleet service a heat recovery system for the community’s water plant.
Due to scarcity of road access, more than 80% of the state’s towns depend on air transport. Bering Air is a regional airline serving rural Alaskan communities. Population of Unalakleet is just 741 that is in Alaska. It is around 150 miles (240km) south-east of Nome and 395 miles north-west of Anchorage. Bering Air gives services in around 32 countrysides in western Alaska from Nome, Unalakleet and Kotzebue. Travelling by air is often the only way of transportation of any distance in rural Alaska especially, in the winter season.
Unfortunately, this third US aviation disaster in just a week.
- In Philadelphia, a medical transportation plane crashed on 31 January, where six people onboard and a person on the ground died.
- On 29 January, 67 people died on the spot in a collision between an army helicopter and a commercial jetliner near the nation’s capital.
Our prayers are with the families and communities mourning this disaster.
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