A orangish and achromatic chopper flies successful beforehand of a mountainAn aircrew aboard an MH-60 Jayhawk chopper makes an attack connected their return to Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak, June 5, 2019. (Petty Officer 1st Class Bradley Pigage/U.S. Coast Guard)

Coast Guard unit are searching for a missing charter formation that near Juneau connected Saturday bound for Yakutat but ne'er reached its destination.

There were 3 group connected board, but Coast Guard nationalist affairs serviceman Mike Salerno said they do not cognize thing much astir them. The missing level is simply a Beechcraft Bonanza, according to a Coast Guard societal media post.

Coast Guard spokesperson Shannon Kearney said nan first telephone astir an overdue level came successful astatine 5:40 p.m. connected Saturday. The agency issued a marine broadcast conscionable aft 6 p.m. and sent retired nan U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Reef Shark astir half an hr later.

Later, they launched a MH-60T chopper from Sitka and C130 from Kodiak and person collaborated pinch Alaska State Troopers and nan Alaska Rescue Coordination Center to hunt for nan plane.

The agency is searching adjacent nan Fairweather Mountain Range. According to a dispatch from Alaska State Troopers, they sewage a report that nan level went missing adjacent Mount Crillon, which is astatine nan confederate extremity of nan range.

Salerno asked that group flying betwixt Juneau and Yakutat who spot thing retired of nan ordinary contact nan Coast Guard.

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