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2 outlets · filed 5 October 2026

Six presumed dead as Coast Guard suspends search for missing medical plane near Nantucket

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Medical transport plane flying from Bermuda to Boston crashed off coast of Massachusetts early Saturday Six people are presumed dead after the US Coast Guard on Sunday suspended its search for survivors of a medical transport plane crash off the coast of Massachusetts early the previous day.

What the coverage shows

Both outlets center the Coast Guard’s decision to suspend the search and the fact that six people are missing and presumed dead, with the plane described as a medical or air ambulance flight from Bermuda to Boston. The Guardian US alone adds that the aircraft crashed off the Massachusetts coast early Saturday, while ABC News frames the story more simply as the search ending for six missing people after the plane disappeared.

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