Latitude Air Ambulance said the four crew members, a patient and a family escort aboard a medical jet missing off Nantucket are presumed dead after the U.S. Coast Guard ended its search.
The U.S. Coast Guard suspended its search for a medical transport jet that left Bermuda for Boston and went missing near Nantucket. Debris was later found off the Massachusetts island.
Ontario-based Latitude Air Ambulance said that, with the search phase over, the four members of its team, the patient and the patient's family escort aboard Heartbeat 104 are presumed to have died. CBC News reported the Coast Guard had named the six people.
The Canadian crew were Philip Gregory Childerhose, Thomas Henry Farquhar, Sarah Jane Paton and Jolene Beth Weir. The two other people on board were Bermudian nationals, the Coast Guard said. Canada's Transportation Safety Board is investigating.
CNN, citing FlightAware, reported the Gulfstream G-100 flew at about 24,000 feet for more than an hour before dropping about 13,000 feet in two minutes. It departed L.F. Wade International Airport in Bermuda and was due at Boston Logan.
The company expressed condolences to the families. Authorities said next of kin had been notified. No cause had been established in the reports available on Tuesday.
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- Latitude Air Ambulance said it had to face the heartbreaking reality that those aboard are presumed dead.
- The Coast Guard thanked crews and partner agencies that joined the search.