Earlier on Friday, we reported on a Bering Air aircraft going missing on a one-hour flight from Unalakleet to Nome. The plane, a single-engine Cessna Caravan, was flying the mostly over-water route when it disappeared. As we reported:
A Cessna Caravan aircraft carrying the pilot and nine passengers from Unalakleet to Nome (Alaska) has vanished. Searchers are currently braving the Alaska winter searching for the missing aircraft, but as of this writing, there is no trace of the plane or its passengers.
The Caravan left Unalakleet at 2:37 p.m., and officials lost contact with it less than an hour later, according to David Olson, director of operations for Bering Air. The flight path to Nome takes planes over Norton Sound, which was partly but not entirely ice-covered this week.
The aircraft was 12 miles offshore, the U.S. Coast Guard said. It was operating at…
