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• Jack Daleo
Latitude Air Ambulance said all six people aboard a medical flight from Bermuda to Boston are presumed dead after the Coast Guard found a debris field about 20 miles south of Nantucket. The search was suspended at dusk Sunday and shifted to recovery; those aboard included four crew members, a patient and the patient’s companion.
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Latitude Air Ambulance said all six people aboard a medical flight from Bermuda to Boston are presumed dead after the Coast Guard found a debris field about 20 miles south of Nantucket. The search was suspended at dusk Sunday and shifted to recovery; those aboard included four crew members, a patient and the patient’s companion.
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A Gulfstream G100 operated by Latitude Air Ambulance lost contact shortly after 1 a.m. while carrying four Canadians and two people picked up in Bermuda on a medical flight to Boston. The U.S. Coast Guard launched a search operation off Nantucket after the aircraft reportedly underwent a sudden descent.
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