US: Medical Evacuation Plane with 6 Aboard Disappears Over Atlantic

The US Coast Guard has launched air and sea searches after a private jet operating as an air ambulance vanished en route from Bermuda to Boston.

A private jet operating as a medical evacuation flight with six people on board disappeared over the Atlantic Ocean en route from Bermuda to Boston, news outlets ynet and Naftemporiki reported.

According to flight data cited by ynet, the aircraft plummeted approximately 12,500 feet in three minutes before contact was lost off the coast of Massachusetts. Turkish newspaper Hürriyet reported that the United States Coast Guard launched a wide-ranging search and rescue operation by air and sea off the coast of Nantucket.

The identities of those on board and the circumstances surrounding the aircraft's disappearance have not yet been disclosed, and further details have not yet been released.