A search is still underway on Friday for a flight carrying 10 passengers that disappeared in Alaska on Thursday.

While flying through two Alaska towns, the Bering Air Caravan was reported missing at 8pm Thursday Eastern Time. According to Alaska Public Safety Bureau. The “deferred aircraft” carried nine passengers and one pilot, travelling from non-lacretes to gnomes, nearly 150 miles away.

NOME Volunteer Fire Station (NVFP) conducted a ground search on Thursday night as weather and visibility made air search difficult at the time. I said On facebook.

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“The latest updates from the plane’s pilot Flight Service told Anchorage Air Traffic Control that it was going to enter a retention pattern while waiting for the runway to be cleared,” NVFD I said With the update.

The National Transportation Safety Board responded to daily request for comment from callers. “At this point, what we can say is that the NTSB is aware of the report and is monitoring the situation.”

The NVFD said C-130 Coast Guard planes will scope around the surrounding area to search for vision of the missing plane. The aircraft were searched using grid patterns. According to an additional post by the NVFD, it was later joined by the US Air Force C-130 and Coast Guard helicopters. (Related: Report: Pilots disappear in a short flight, and families scramble for answers)

A Friday morning update noted that the search is still underway and that the National Guard is starting a search in Black Hawk. The NVFD added that the FBI will follow the path to Nome to try and find the missing group via mobile phone tracing.

“The plane is not communicated by the ELT,” the fire department said, referring to the emergency locator transmitter, which is the transmitter required for most planes that emit a clear audio tone used to locate the collapsed aircraft. I’m doing it. FAA website situation These transmitters “operate continuously over a wide temperature range for at least 48 hours.”

The latest in NVFD update All families of passengers on the missing flight have been notified of the incident, he said. Search efforts are underway through land and air.

This disappearance marks the third major aviation incident in the United States in the last nine days. American Airlines’ passenger and military helicopters were caught in a collision near Washington, Reagan National Airport on January 29, killing all 67 people on the plane. Two days later, Learjet 55 carrying six people, including a pediatric patient and her mother, was fatally crashed in Philadelphia.