Coast Guard search crews found a debris field off Nantucket tied to a vanished Boston-bound medevac flight carrying six, and crews are still hunting for survivors.
U.S. Coast Guard crews off Nantucket Island located wreckage confirmed to be associated with a Canadian-registered air ambulance that vanished early Saturday on a flight from Bermuda to Boston. Six people were on board. The search for potential survivors continued through the night.
Fox News reported the aircraft as a twin-engine Gulfstream G100 owned by Latitude Air Ambulance, a medical transport company that moves patients who need specialized care. The plane never arrived at Boston Logan International Airport.
On board were two Canadian pilots, two medical workers, one patient, and a companion traveling with the patient. Canada’s foreign affairs department said it was deeply concerned and confirmed Canadians were among those aboard. Consular officials stayed in contact with the agencies running the response.
Skyport, which manages Bermuda’s airport, said the Canadian-registered air ambulance left L. F. Wade International Airport for Boston at approximately 12:41 a.m. on Saturday, October 3, 2026, with six souls on board, four crew members and two passengers. FlightAware data put the takeoff at 11:41 p.m. ET.
Around 1 a.m., FlightAware showed the jet dropping from 24,000 feet to 11,000 feet in three minutes. The FAA said it lost contact early Saturday and issued a Search and Rescue Alert Notice about 1:20 a.m. ET. The flight was supposed to take roughly two hours.
In an earlier Saturday statement, the FAA said it was “coordinating with the Rescue Coordination Center and the U.S. Coast Guard to locate the aircraft.” Massport confirmed the plane did not reach Logan as scheduled and said its thoughts were with those on board and their loved ones as the search continued.
Former U.S. Department of Transportation Inspector General Mary Schiavo shared this analysis with Fox News Digital:
"This aircraft was dealt a dire one-two punch: a critical safety in-flight problem, followed almost immediately by a perilous weather event and an 11,000-foot plunge,"
No official cause has been confirmed. The NTSB told Fox News Digital it is gathering information and declined to give an update, a familiar early posture in major aviation probes, including after an Amazon cargo jet overran a Miami runway in a separate fatal accident under federal review.
Coast Guard Northeast District crews moved fast. Assets included an HC-130 Hercules from Air Station Elizabeth City, an MH-60 Jayhawk from Air Station Cape Cod, a 47-foot motor lifeboat from Station Brant Point, and the cutter William Sparling. The cutter was set to keep searching overnight. A Coast Guard news conference was planned for Sunday morning.
Nantucket harbormaster crews and local police also searched the island’s south shore Saturday. The professional, no-drama posture matches other recent Coast Guard emergency work, including when a DHS secretary’s Coast Guard jet lost an engine and still reached Reagan National safely.
Bermuda Premier David Burt issued a public statement as his government reached the family and U.S. search-and-rescue authorities.
"My thoughts are with the six people aboard the missing air ambulance traveling from Bermuda to Boston, and their families,"
Burt added:
"Government has contacted the family and US search and rescue authorities. We are praying that everyone will be found safe."
Skyport said the FAA had advised that air traffic controllers lost contact with the aircraft off the coast of Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, and that a search was underway. The airport manager said it had no further information at the time.
Canada’s foreign affairs department posted that its thoughts were with everyone on board and their loved ones, and thanked the U.S. Coast Guard and others in the search. Latitude Air Ambulance confirmed ownership of the jet and that the mission was a medevac flight.
As of the latest reporting, authorities had not released the names of the six people on the plane. Debris had been tied to the flight, but the public record still described an active hunt for potential survivors rather than a recovery-only operation. Families waiting on hard answers know how long that uncertainty can last, and how much it matters when a missing person is found alive after days in the wild.
What sent the Gulfstream into that rapid descent remains unanswered in the official file. Weather and an in-flight safety problem sit in outside analysis, not in a confirmed Coast Guard or NTSB finding. The cutter stayed on station. Aircraft and boats kept working the waters off Massachusetts. Maritime emergency work rarely looks clean in real time, whether the call is a vanished jet or shipping containers spilling off a cargo ship with the cause still unknown.
For now the facts are plain: a medevac flight left Bermuda for Boston with six people, controllers lost the aircraft off Nantucket, the jet shed more than 10,000 feet in minutes on tracking data, and Coast Guard crews found a debris field they say belongs to that plane. The search did not stop when the wreckage appeared.
When Americans need help over cold water, they still turn to the same people who show up without a press strategy, and the families of those six deserve every hour of that effort, plus clear answers when the investigation is ready to give them.