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Wreckage of a crashed plane found about 34 miles southeast of Nome, Alaska, on Feb. 7, 2025. The crashed plane is believed to be a Bering Air Caravan carrying 10 people which went missing on Feb. 6.

The Alaska Department of Public Safety said in a statement that state troopers were contacted by the U.S. Coast Guard about “an overdue aircraft” at 4 p.m. local time Thursday, and that search ...

The U.S. Coast Guard said Friday it located wreckage of a commuter plane that went missing. The Nome-bound plane went missing after takeoff with 10 aboard. There were no survivors.

A Bering Air Cessna 208 Caravan carrying 10 people went missing over Alaska on Thursday afternoon while en route to Nome. The aircraft lost radio contact and disappeared from radar just before its ...

Alaska State Troopers confirmed the missing plane was a commercial Bering Air flight. “On February 6, 2025, at 4:00 p.m., AST was contacted by AKRCC regarding an overdue aircraft.

We’d hoped the slew of recent plane crashes was just a blip, but sadly, that doesn’t seem to be the case. Another plane has gone missing near Nome, Alaska and is believed to have crashed. The ...

Nome, with a population of just 3,600, is the closest major settlement to where it dropped off the radar. White Mountain, to the north of the plane's last tracked location, has a population below 200.

The names of the people onboard have not yet been released. Nome, a Gold Rush town, is just south of the Arctic Circle and is known as the ending point of the 1,000-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.

FILE - Gunnar Kaasen and with his dog Balto, the heroic dogsled team leader, sit for a portrait in the early 1920s. (AP Photo, File) ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska Gold Rush town of Nome faced a ...