By U.S. Coast Guard

BOSTON — The U.S. Coast Guard Northeast District is searching Saturday for a missing medical transport aircraft with six people aboard after the aircraft lost contact while traveling from Bermuda to Boston.

At approximately 2 a.m., the Federal Aviation Administration notified the Coast Guard that contact had been lost with the Gulfstream G100 aircraft, tail number C-GRJP. 

Coast Guard air and surface crews are searching an area off the coast of Nantucket. 

Coast Guard assets responding include: 

  • An HC-144 Ocean Sentry airplane crew from Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod 
  • HC-130 Hercules crew from Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City 
  • An MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew from Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod 
  • A 47-foot Motor Lifeboat crew from Coast Guard Station Brant Point 
  • Coast Guard Cutter William Sparling, a Boston-based Fast Response Cutter 

The search remains ongoing. Additional information will be released as it becomes available.