All six passengers presumed dead after plane went missing off US coast

Six passengers aboard a medical transport flight that vanished Saturday while en route from Bermuda to Boston are presumed dead, according to the operator. "We indispensable present look the heartbreaking world that the 4 members of our Latitude team, our diligent and the patient's household escort, who were aboard Heartbeat 104, are presumed to person died," Latitude Air Ambulance said successful a connection soon thereafter. "Our thoughts are archetypal and foremost with their families, loved ones, friends, and colleagues." On Sunday evening the United States Coast Guard announced it was ending its hunt for survivors off the coast of Nantucket, a Massachusetts island. The Federal Aviation Administration lost interaction with the Gulfstream G-100 level conscionable aft 01:00 section clip (05:00 GMT) connected Saturday morning. On Saturday evening authorities located a "debris field" confirmed to beryllium from the aircraft. The level had departed from Bermuda's L.F. Wade International Airport astatine 23:40 section clip connected Friday night, according to formation information from FlightAware, and was owed to onshore astatine Boston's Logan International astatine 01:30 EDT (05:30 GMT). Four Canadian nationals and 2 Bermudian nationals were onboard. "This is an unimaginable nonaccomplishment for our Latitude household and for everyone who loved the six radical aboard Heartbeat 104," said Peter Byl, President of Latitude Air Ambulance, connected Sunday evening. "Our absorption present is connected supporting their families, supporting our radical and assisting the authorities. We volition honour our colleagues by remembering the care, professionalism, and committedness they brought to their enactment each day." Latitude Air Ambulance is simply a Canadian institution that provides planetary aesculapian flights for patients returning home. Two pilots and 2 aesculapian staff, some Canadian, had flown to Bermuda to cod a diligent and their relative, Clarence Togeretz, manager of formation operations astatine Latitude, told CBC News. FlightAware's tracker shows that the craft importantly dropped successful altitude earlier its communications went dark, plummeting from astir 7,300m (24,000ft) to 3,300m (11,000ft). Radio transmissions amusement occupation with communications betwixt the aerial postulation controller and the pilot, the Boston Globe reported, based connected transmissions provided by LiveATC.net. "You're coming successful blind? Is that what you said?" the aerial postulation controller asked. "Are you declaring an emergency, oregon no?" The pilot's effect was inaudible. "You're coming successful a small anemic truthful I didn't perceive what your effect was, if you were declaring an exigency oregon not," the aerial postulation controller said, according to the Globe. The aerial postulation controller aboriginal confirmed the aviator had declared an emergency. An country occurrence dispatcher asked exigency crews conscionable aft 01:00 EDT to hole to conscionable a level with an "electrical issue". The dispatcher aboriginal said "the craft has mislaid vigor and radar". Latitude said successful its connection connected Sunday evening that it would proceed to cooperate with applicable authorities during ongoing betterment efforts and investigations. "Determining the circumstances and origin of an aviation mishap is simply a cautious and methodical process, and we volition not speculate astur what occurred," the institution said.