NOME, Alaska — Search and rescue crews are looking for a Bering Air plane that was reported missing Thursday on its way from Unalakleet to Nome, Alaska.
According to the Alaska Department of Public Safety, there were nine passengers and one pilot onboard.
The plane disappeared from radar at around 4:00 p.m. in Alaska, which would be about noon locally.
As of Friday morning, the plane still remains missing.
The Bering Air Caravan, a single-engine turboprop, was heading from Unalakleet to Nome on Thursday afternoon with nine passengers and a pilot, according to Alaska’s Department of Public Safety. Authorities were working to determine its last known coordinates.
Unalakleet is a community of about 690 people in western Alaska, about 150 miles southeast of Nome and 395 miles northwest of Anchorage.
Search and rescue crews are working on getting the aircraft’s last known coordinates.
The Nome Volunteer Fire Department says its personnel were actively searching on the ground between Nome and White Mountain.
“Due to weather and visibility, we are limited on air search at the current time,” the fire department said online.
The department asked the public not to form individual search parties at this time, “due to weather and safety concerns.”
This disappearance marks the third major incident in U.S. aviation in eight days. A commercial jetliner and an Army helicopter collided near the nation’s capital on Jan. 29, killing 67 people. A medical transportation plane crashed in Philadelphia on Jan. 31, killing the six people onboard and another person on the ground.
The National Guard and U.S. Coast Guard are also helping in the search.
KIRO 7 will post updates as they become available.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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