Alaska authorities (United States) try to locate a commercial plane in which ten people were traveling and that disappeared this Thursday in the state, in what would be the third aviation accident in the country in the last ten days.
The Department of Public Security indicated on its website that the aircraft was lost, a Cessna 208 Caravan operated by Bering Air, in which nine passengers and a pilot were traveling, around 15:20 local time on Thursday (00.20 Friday GMT).
The search teams (among them, the US Coast Guard and the country’s Air Force) are looking for the plane by land and air “in the midst of difficult conditions,” said this department today in its X account.
The plane was traveling from Unalakleet, a small fishing city, to the Nome region, where it had to land and where there was a temperature of about 12 degrees Celsius below zero.
According to Nome’s voluntary firefighters, the pilot informed the air controllers his intention to wait for the landing floor to clear, but shortly after the call the plane lost altitude before his trail was completely lost.
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The Chief of Firefighters of the city White Mountain (in Nome), Jack Adams, told the Ktuu chain that he hopes that the plane “be on land”, since “being in the water would be the worst scenario”, since in the sea there is ice.
The disappearance of this aircraft takes place just a week after 67 people died after the collision between a military helicopter and a commercial plane that rushed into the icy waters of the Potomac River, in Washington.
A few days after that event, six people – four crew members and two passengers – died in an aircraft that crashed in the city of Philadelphia
With EFE information
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