The U.S. Coast Guard has located debris from an air ambulance flight that lost contact with air traffic controllers Saturday morning, a source familiar with the situation told NBC News.
\n\n“The search for survivors continues,” the source said.
\n\nThe Gulfstream G100 jet was carrying six people when it lost contact en route to Boston from the island of Bermuda, the Coast Guard said earlier Saturday.
\n\nThe agency said air and surface crews were searching an area off the coast of Nantucket after it was informed at 2 a.m. that a jet had lost contact with air traffic controllers.
\n\nThe plane was carrying out a medical evacuation in Bermuda, said Clarence Togeretz, the director of flight operations at Latitude Air Ambulance, which operates the plane.
\n\n“We always get rather concerned when our crew doesn’t report to us in a timely manner,” he told NBC News. “But I will say that again, optimistically and positively, that doesn’t mean that the worst has happened.”
\n\nTogeretz added that Latitude Air Ambulance has an emergency response plan in place “absolutely for anything that might occur to any of our missions.”
\n\nLatitude Air Ambulance operates specially equipped private planes to transport and treat the sick or…
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