The wreckage of the Bing Air Caravan company plane that disappeared 10 minutes before landing has been found. All 10 people on board are believed to have died.
CBS News reported this news on Saturday (February 8).
The report said that the wreckage of the plane was found 34 miles southeast of the Nome area of Alaska. The bodies of 3 people have been recovered from that wreckage. The condition of the aircraft means that it is not possible to recover the bodies of the remaining 7 people.
The plane with 9 passengers and a pilot on board was flying from the eastern Alaskan city of Unalakleet to the western Alaskan city of Nome when it suddenly went out of radar surveillance. The pilot of the plane contacted air traffic for landing, but the plane suddenly disappeared. After that, the fire service and various related organizations found and recovered the wreckage of the plane.
Note that there have been 3 related plane crashes in the United States in the last 11 days. On January 29, an American Eagle flight and an Army Black Hawk helicopter crashed into the Potomac River near Washington, D.C., killing 67 people on both planes. On January 31, a medical transportation plane crashed in Philadelphia, killing six people on board and one person on the ground.