Coast Guard suspends search for six people aboard air ambulance that vanished flying blind off Nantucket

From the Newshound archive · first published 3 October 2026 · last updated 5 October 2026.

The US Coast Guard has suspended its search for survivors from a Latitude Air Ambulance Gulfstream G100 that disappeared over the Atlantic during a flight from Bermuda to Boston in the early hours of Saturday. The jet, carrying four Canadians and two Bermudian nationals, plunged from 24,000 feet to around 11,000 feet in roughly three minutes before vanishing from radar just before its scheduled 1:25am landing at Boston Logan Airport. A debris field was confirmed off the coast of Nantucket after a search covering more than 2,840 square miles.

Chilling air traffic control audio captured a controller asking the pilot 'Roger, you said you're coming in blind — is that what you said?' moments before contact was lost.

The plane had reported electrical failure and declared an emergency just as a storm moved across its flight path, with investigators likely to focus on instrument loss as a cause.

The six aboard were two Canadian pilots, two Canadian medical workers, a Bermudian patient and their accompanying relative; none have been named publicly.