An urgent search is underway for a small aircraft that vanished off the coast of Alaska last night with ten people onboard.
The tiny Bering Air Caravan took off from Unalakleet, a small community in western Alaska, and was on a short 55-minute flight to Nome when it suddenly disappeared off flight radars over the Norton Sound inlet at 3:16pm local time.
Choppy seas and frigid temperatures are hampering rescue efforts, with the Coast Guard and Air Force both deploying teams.
The FBI joined the search on Friday ‘to try and locate the group through cell phone tracking’, and officials said they were focusing efforts on the icy shoreline in hopes of finding survivors.
Little is known about who was on board, but it comes just a week after 67 people were killed in the Washington DC collision of an American Airlines jet with a military Black Hawk helicopter.