All aboard the plane that went missing in Alaska were killed

^{Wreckage of crashed Bering Air plane
Photo: AP}
A Bering Air plane that went missing in Alaska was reported to have disappeared from radar while en route to Nome. The AP reported that the plane had crashed and that rescuers had found its wreckage.

All ten people on board were killed, the publication said, citing officials.
Coast Guard Lieutenant Benjamin McIntyre-Coblen said that according to radar forensics, the plane “had experienced some kind of event that caused it to lose altitude and speed rapidly.” The plane did not receive a distress signal.

^{Bering Air plane / archive
Photo: AP}
The agency clarified that the plane was carrying passengers to their usual workplaces, all of whom were adults. Due to the vastness of the territory and limited infrastructure, aviation is the main mode of transport in Alaska. This incident was the deadliest air accident in the state in the last 25 years.

On February 6, a Bering Air plane with ten people on board disappeared from radar while flying south of the Arctic Circle over Norton Sound in Alaska. There were nine passengers and a pilot on board the aircraft, which was en route from Unalaklit to Nome.

This is the third major plane crash in the United States in recent days. On January 29 of this year, 67 people were killed when a passenger plane and a military helicopter collided in the air near the country's capital. Two days later, on January 31, a medical transport plane crashed in Philadelphia, killing six people on board and one person on the ground. Follow “Zamin” news on “Telegram”