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Contact with the small aircraft was lost early Saturday morning after the plane declared an emergency. The US Coast Guard launched search parties on water and in the air.
The US Coast Guard is searching for a missing small plane off the east coast of the United States. The coast guard in the northeast of the USA said that contact with the aircraft was lost early on Saturday morning, citing the aviation authority FAA. Search parties searched on the water and from the air for the plane, which was said to have carried six people. According to Canadian Transport Minister Steven MacKinnon, four of the six people are Canadian.
A statement from Nantucket Airport - one of the closest airports on the coast to the plane's last known location - said that the plane had declared an emergency before contact was lost. “However, the exact circumstances of the incident remain unclear,” says the letter, which is available to the German Press Agency.
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