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Source: theguardian.com

<p>Medical transport plane flying from Bermuda to Boston crashed off coast of Massachusetts early Saturday </p><p>Six people are presumed dead after the US Coast Guard on Sunday suspended its search for survivors of a <a href="https://www.news.uscg.mil/Press-Releases/Article/4618687/coast-guard-continues-search-for-six-people-after-locating-debris-from-missing/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">medical transport plane crash</a> off the coast of Massachusetts early the previous day.</p><p>The aircraft, which was flying from Bermuda to Boston, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/03/us-coast-guard-missing-air-ambulance-massachusetts" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">lost contact</a> with ground authorities at about 2am on Saturday, and the Coast Guard located a debris field near the island of Nantucket later that day.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/05/medical-flight-crash-massachusetts-death-toll" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">Continue reading...</a>

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