A search has been launched after a Bering Air plane carrying 10 people went missing from radar near Nome in Alaska on Thursday afternoon, according to local officials.
The plane, a Cessna caravan, was en route from Alaska’s Unalakleet to Nome when it disappeared from radar, the Nome Volunteer Fire Department said in a statement.
“We are currently responding to a report of a missing Bering Air caravan,” the department stated. “National Guard and Coast Guard and Troopers have been notified and are active in the search.”
The department said that it had launched ground searches in Nome and White Mountain for the missing plane, but the weather conditions complicated aerial search efforts….