An air ambulance carrying six people disappeared off Nantucket, Massachusetts, and a search-and-rescue operation has started by the U.S. Coast Guard. The plane was going to Boston from Bermuda, and authorities lost contact yesterday, the National Weather Service said.
The missing plane was a Gulfstream G100, allegedly owned by Latitude Air Ambulance. The plane was to make it back to Boston, but communications with the aircraft had gone missing south of Nantucket. The disappearance sent authorities searching the surrounding waters immediately.
The U.S. Coast Guard has deployed aircraft to search the waters near Nantucket. A Coast Guard C-144 aircraft and helicopter were involved in the operation as officials tried to determine where the aircraft was and what happened after contact was lost.
Cape Cod news agency Cape Wide News reported that flight controllers lost contact with the aircraft at about 1:45 a.m. after the pilot reported electrical issues. But it’s still not clear whether the plane crashed, made an emergency landing or experienced another form of aviation emergency. The search continues as officials try to find the aircraft and everyone aboard.
The flight was also believed to have had six passengers on board. At the time of the disappearance, officials had not disclosed the identities of the passengers or the role of those passengers. Because the flight was an air ambulance, it may have involved medical personnel and a patient, but officials had not publicly acknowledged the individual roles of the six passengers.
The incident was a matter of immediate interest, since the plane disappeared as it was travelling over the Atlantic waters in the northeast U.S. Search efforts to locate it are especially tricky since rescuers have to cover a large ocean, and weather and sea conditions change rapidly.
🚨🇺🇸: US Coast Guard assets are searching just south of #Nantucket , MA for a Gulfstream aircraft that departed #Bermuda for Boston and lost contact with the FAA early this morning.
— World_Breaking_News03 (@Breaking2003) October 3, 2026
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Marine conditions around Nantucket were also being monitored during the period. The National Weather Service in Boston had issued a Small Craft Advisory for coastal waters, with southwest winds of about 10 to 20 knots and gusts up to 25 knots and seas of about three to five feet.
A cause of the disappearance of the plane has not been confirmed by authorities. The flight path and altitude have been tracked by flight tracking and social media channels, but nothing else has been independently confirmed as to what actually happened. The Coast Guard is still the primary source of official information.
The disappearance of the aircraft also illustrates the importance of air ambulances to transport patients between locations. A lot of such flights are done on critical timetables, and so pilots, air traffic controllers, medical personnel and emergency workers must communicate with each other.
But as the search continues, rescue crews are focusing on the waters south of Nantucket. Search teams will provide further information once they locate the plane and know what happened in the last phase of flight.
At this stage, the status of the six people aboard has not yet been confirmed publicly. The search is currently ongoing by the U.S. Coast Guard, and officials have not yet said whether the aircraft has been found or whether any survivors have been located.
