Wreckage of missing plane found in Alaska; all 10 aboard presumed dead

Nome is a strong community, and in challenging times we come together and support each other. I expect the outpouring of support to continue in the coming days as we all work to recover from this tragic incident,

Handeland said

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The conditions out there are dynamic, so we’ve got to do it safely in the fastest way we can,

Jim West, chief of the Nome volunteer fire department, said on Friday

These two members of our team lost their lives serving others,

David Beveridge, vice-president of environmental health and engineering for the organization, said in a statement

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It’s hard to accept the reality of our loss,

Senator Lisa Murkowski said during an evening news conference

Our thoughts are with those affected by this tragic incident,

the USCG said

Unfortunately, it does not appear to be a survivable crash,

Salerno said

Unfortunately, now since the wreckage has been found and 10 fatalities, it's time for us to roll up our sleeves and go to work,

Johnson said

Please do not isolate yourself in your grief. In the coming days, in the weeks, as we begin to hear of which families are impacted, our hearts are going to break over and over, and it’s okay to mourn and grief, but please do not isolate,

Snyder said

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It’s just heartbreaking. Because every single person in this room has been on one of those planes,

Snyder told The Nome Nugget, the city’s local paper

We are very much in the preliminary stages of the investigation,

Clint Johnson, Chief of the NTSB’s Alaska Regional Office told reporters Friday, saying

Rhone Baumgartner and Kameron Hartvigson were passionate about the work they did, cared deeply for the communities they served, and made a lasting impact on rural communities across our state,

Natasha Singh, ANTHC interim president and CEO, said in a statement

Words can’t express the loss we’re all feeling, we’re all connected in so many ways,

said Alaska Sen

We don’t know how long that’s going to take. It could go hours; it could go potentially days. Coming up to tomorrow we have 18 hours of potential recovery time,

West said, citing the ever-changing conditions of the crash’s site and incoming weather

There have been no ELT notifications to the United States Coast Guard. Why that has occurred, or why that hasn't occurred is, not something that we're entirely clear about,

according to McIntyre-Coble

#USCG has ended its search for the missing plane after the aircraft was located approx. 34 miles southeast of Nome. 3 individuals were found inside and reported to be deceased."

Sharing the picture of the missing plane on X (formerly Twitter), the Coast Guard wrote

Please keep families in your thoughts at this time,

the fire department said

Typically, you know, if there was a bear attack there would be evidence of it,

he told the outlet

What I found when I was doing my research in the Alaskan Triangle, was that a number of these missing person cases legitimately could not be solved

He said

They will search here until they find them or somebody else finds them,

Adams told Alaska’s KTUU on Thursday

Due to weather and visibility, we are limited on air search at the current time,

the department said, urging residents not to conduct independent search operations due to the dangerous conditions