Crashed plane found after the plane with 10 on board in Alaska missing
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Crashed plane found after the plane with 10 on board in Alaska missing

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In search of a flight that was missing on board on Thursday with 10 people, a crashed plane with three dead in Alaska was found in Alaska, the coast guard announced on Friday.

The crashed plane was found about 34 miles southeast of Nome, the coast guard said in an update to X.

“3 people were found on the inside and reported that they had died. Our thoughts are with those affected by this tragic incident,” said the coast guard.

A Bering Air Cessna Caravan with nine passengers and a pilot on board started on Thursday by Unalakleet, a municipality on the east coast of Norton Sound, and went to Nome about 140 miles to the west.

The flight started on Thursday at 2:37 p.m. from Unalakleet, Bering Air Director of Operations, David Olson, told the NBC subsidiary Ktuu from Anchorage.

The radar analysis showed that on Thursday at 3:18 p.m. “an event experienced an event at this plane, which caused it to experience a rapid loss of height and a rapid loss of speed”, Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. Benjamin Mcintyre-Coble said at a press conference on Friday.

The Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy said on Friday that he and his wife Rose “broke through the disappearance of the Bering Air flight over Norton Sound with a broken heart.”

“In this difficult time, our prayers are among the passengers, the pilot and their loved ones,” said Dunleavy in a explanation.

Nome and Unalakleet in the western part of Alaska are not serviced by the state’s motorway system, with air and water or snowmobile livelihood and the main transport forms between the two are.

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Phil Helsel

Phil Helsel is a reporter for NBC News.

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