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The Guardian - US
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Michael Sainato

Debris found as US Coast Guard search for missing medical plane carrying six people

People in a dinghy motorboat with a neon orange rim on open water, with two planes above.
Coast guard crew search by air and on the water for a Boston-bound air ambulance that vanished off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts, on Saturday. Photograph: US Coast Guard/AP

Researches found debris from a medical transport plane that was carrying six people when it vanished over the Atlantic early on Saturday during a flight from Bermuda to Boston, the US Coast Guard said.

A statement from the coast guard issued on Saturday evening said crews searching off the coast of the Massachusetts island Nantucket “located a debris field confirmed to be from the aircraft”, described as an air ambulance.

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