US-Coast-Guard

Six people aboard a medical transport aircraft that went missing on Saturday while it was travelling from Bermuda to Boston are presumed dead, according to a statement from the flight's operator.On Sunday evening, the United States Coast Guard said it was ending its search for survivors off the coast of Nantucket, a Massachusetts island, reports BBC."We must now face the heartbreaking reality that the four members of our Latitude team, our patient and the patient's family escort, who were aboard...

A Kenmore Air floatplane carrying 11 people made a harrowing emergency landing in the waters off Sucia Island on July 23, bursting into flames shortly after touching down and triggering a large-scale, multinational rescue effort in Washington state's San Juan Islands.The U.S. Coast Guard Sector Puget Sound received a distress call at approximately 5:25 p.m. local time—roughly ten minutes after the aircraft set down in Shallow Bay—reporting that the seaplane had caught fire. According to a statem...