At least three of the ten passengers traveling aboard a disappeared plane In Alaska on the night of last Thursday they died after the authorities located the remains of the apparatus 54 kilometers from where it planned to land.
“The United States Coast Guard has finished its search for the missing plane after The aircraft was located Approximately 34 miles (54 kilometers) southeast of Nome “, where its final destination was planned, the organism reported in X. Once located,” three people were found inside and it was reported that they were deceased, “added the letter .
To the device, a Cessna 208 Caravan operated by Bering Air in which nine passengers and a pilot were traveling, The track was lost Around 15:20 Local time on Thursday (00:20 on Friday GMT), according to the Department of Public Security. The plane was traveling from Unalakleet, a small fishing city, to the Nome region, where it had to land and where there was a temperature of about 12 degrees Celsius below zero.
According to Nome’s voluntary firefighters, the pilot communicated to aerial controllers their intention to wait for the landing floor to clear, but Shortly after the call the plane lost altitude Before your trail was completely lost.
The disappearance of this aircraft takes place just a week after 67 people died after the collision between a military helicopter and a commercial plane that rushed into the icy waters of the Potomac River, in Washington. A few days after that event, six people – four crew and two passengers – died in an aircraft that crashed in the city of Philadelphia.