US Coast Guard finds wreckage of missing plane off Nantucket

The United States Coast Guard's 1st District (USCG Northeast) has recovered the wreckage of a plane that went missing off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts. The information appeared on the department's website.

Search crews have found a field of debris in the Atlantic Ocean that is officially recognized as fragments of the missing air ambulance plane. The Gulfstream G100 aircraft, tail number C-GRJP, was operating a medical flight from Bermuda to Boston. There were six people on board: four Canadian citizens and two Bermudian citizens. It is reported that their next of kin have already been notified of the incident.

It is known that significant forces from the Coast Guard and partner agencies, including aircraft from the New York Air National Guard, have been involved in the large-scale search and rescue operation. In the first 27 hours, rescuers searched an area of ​​1,644 square miles (approximately 4,258 square kilometers).