The United States Coast Guard is searching for a Gulfstream jet carrying six people that lost contact with flight controllers Saturday morning on its way to Boston from the island of Bermuda.
The Coast Guard says air and surface crews have launched in search of the aircraft, a Gulfstream G100 jet.
The plane was carrying out a medical evacuation in Bermuda, said Clarence Togeretz, Director of Flight Operations at Latitude Air Ambulance, which operates the plane.
“We always get rather concerned when our crew doesn’t report to us in a timely manner,” he told NBC News. “But I will say that again, optimistically and positively, that doesn’t mean that the worst has happened.”
Togeretz added that Latitude Air Ambulance had an emergency response plan in place “absolutely for anything that might occur to any of our missions.”
The current search area is “off the coast of Nantucket,” the Coast Guard Northeast District said in an update on X. Data from FlightRadar24 showed a number of aircraft searching south of the island.
The Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement that it issued a search and rescue notice for the jet at 1.20 a.m. ET on Saturday, and is coordinating with the USCG and Rescue Coordination Center to locate the aircraft.
Bermuda is a British overseas territory in the north Atlantic Ocean, about 650 miles from North Carolina.
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