On Friday, the American coast guard in Alaska found a plane wreck that was missing the day before. Ten people were killed in the Cessna Caravan machine disaster.
The Coast Guard informed about finding the wreck of the aircraft belonging to the Bering Air line, which was lost on Thursday in Alaska. Ten people were killed in the Cessna Caravan machine disaster.
“We connect with everyone who was affected by this tragedy,” said the coastal guard in an official announcement. According to the authorities, the aircraft was lost about 55 kilometers southeast of the city of Nome, 19 kilometers from the shoreline.
“The machine has experienced something that caused a rapid loss of height and speed,” said the coasting guard.
Ten people were killed in a plane crash in AlaskaReuters
Serious air accidents in the USA
The spokesman for the guard Mike Salerno said that rescuers flying with a helicopter saw the wreck in the area of the last known location of the aircraft. Two rescuers were abandoned to assess the situation.
As David Olson, Operational Director of Bering Air said in an interview with the local NBC branch in Anchorage, Cessna Caravan started on Thursday with Unalakleet – a town located on the east coast of Norton Sound – and headed to Nome, over 220 kilometers away west.
This is the third serious air accident in the US in the last eight days. On January 29, there was a collision in the air of a passenger aircraft near Washington with a military helicopter, as a result of which 67 people were killed. On January 31, a medical aircraft crashed in Philadelphia. Six people were killed on board and one on the ground.
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