Radar showed rapid descent before Bering Air flight disappeared near Nome
Radar at the time showed that at about 3:18 p.m. Thursday, “this aircraft experienced some type of event, which caused them to experience a rapid loss in elevation and a rapid loss in speed,” Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. Benjamin McIntyre-Coble said during a media briefing Friday. “What that event is I can’t speculate to.”
The plane, which is owned by Bering Air, took off from Unalakleet at 2:37 p.m. local time, and it was last seen on radar at 3 ...
Flight records indicated that Bering Air flight 455, a Cessna Caravan, was flying at around 1,400 feet when it stopped ...
A Bering Air commuter plane with 10 people on board went missing en route to Nome from Unalakleet, Alaska. The Coast Guard found the plane but only three bodies inside. The aircraft experienced a ...
Authorities hope to recover the bodies of 10 people assumed killed, document evidence for investigation, and recover the plane wreckage while conditions are relatively safe.
Searchers in a helicopter found the wreckage of the single-engine plane on sea ice 12 miles offshore, according to the Coast Guard said.
Unalakleet is a community of about 690 people in western Alaska, about 240 km southeast of Nome and about 640 km northwest of ...
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