In a statement on February 7, local time, the US Coast Guard (USCG) said that the agency has ended the search for a Cessna plane carrying 10 people missing a day earlier, after finding the wreckage about 54km southeast of the city of Nome.

The statement said that the crew of a USCG MH-60 Jayhawk search helicopter located the wreckage.

After reaching the scene, the search team identified the bodies inside the wreckage; at the same time, it confirmed that there were no survivors in the accident.

US Coast Guard personnel inspect the wreckage of a Cessna in western Alaska, US, on February 7. USCG.
Representatives of the USCG sent condolences to the families of the victims in the accident described as tragic.

Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy and his wife expressed their sadness over the tragedy.

A privately owned Cessna 208B Grand Caravan carrying 10 people, including nine passengers and a pilot, went missing on the afternoon of February 6 while en route from Unalakleet to Nome, two coastal cities located in western Alaska, on the North Pacific coast.

The plane’s last known location was in a body of water about 50 kilometers southeast of Nome.

The crash is the third aviation disaster to occur in the United States in just over a week.

The plane crashed while en route from Unalakleet to Nome, two coastal cities located in western Alaska. Source: dailyvoice/GM.

Earlier on the evening of January 29, while landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington, DC, an American Airlines passenger plane and a Black Hawk military helicopter collided and both crashed into the Potomac River near the airport.

The crash killed all 67 people on board the two planes, making it the deadliest aviation accident in the United States since 2009.

Two days later, on the evening of January 31, a Jet Rescue Air Ambulance carrying six people, including a child patient, the child’s mother, two doctors and two pilots, crashed into a crowded neighborhood in northeast Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. The crash killed all on board.