Search on for overdue plane with 10 on board in Alaska
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Officials said that the search is underway in Alaska after a plane has not arrived with 10 people on board to Nome when a date is set.
The Law Enforcement Agency said that the Bringing Air Force Caravan, from Unalakleet to Nome, was reported to be delayed by Alaska state forces at 4 pm local time.
Officials said nine passengers and a pilot were on board.
The Coast Guard has been notified, and there is also an active search on the ground, the volunteer Nome Fire Department He said in a statement on Medi SocialA. The low weather conditions said Thursday afternoon.
The firefighting department said in an update at approximately 8 pm from the El Mandarf Air Force Base in Marsa that the C-130 Coast Guard with equipment can detect people and things under the weak vision will fly the network style in the area. The fire department said.
The firefighting administration said: “The ground crews have covered the Earth along the coast from sleep to Topkok.” The exact location of the plane is still unknown, “we continue to expand search efforts as possible as possible until the plane falls.”
David Olson, BERING Air Operations Director, said the flight took off from UNAKLEET at 2:37 pm, NBC was reported by NBC from Anchorage.
Coast Guard in Alaska He said on x The plane was 12 miles abroad from Unalakleet to Nome when it lost its location.
Jack Adams, the head of the White Mountain fire, told KUUU that the plane had disappeared from the radar along the sleep coast to Topkuk and that the crews were looking for a period of 30 miles.
“We hope [the plane] Adams told the station, noting that the presence in the water will be the worst scenario.
Unalakleet is a small coastal community on the western coast of Alaska off Norton Sound, and Nome is about 141 miles to the northwest.