Make New York Post a Preferred Source Debris from a medical transport plane that mysteriously vanished early Saturday in the waters off Nantucket has been discovered floating in the ocean, the US Coast Guard confirmed.
Crews from the Boston-based Coast Guard cutter William Sparling rushed to the scene off the coast of Massachusetts and were sifting through wreckage to identify parts of the downed aircraft, a USCG spokesperson told The Post Saturday night.
Six people were aboard the doomed Gulfstream G100 twinjet en route from Bermuda’s L.F. Wade International Airport to Boston Logan International Airport when it suddenly went dark on Federal Aviation Administration radar shortly before its scheduled 1:25 a.m. landing, according to the Coast Guard and FlightAware.
Coast Guard Base Boston was expected to hold a press conference Sunday morning to provide updates on the search and rescue efforts.
A full-scale probe will likely be spearheaded by the National Transportation Safety Board or its Canadian counterpart, the Transportation Safety Board of Canada, said the Coast Guard spokesperson.
