Coast Guard searches off Nantucket for a Latitude Gulfstream with six aboard

The US Coast Guard is searching off Nantucket for a medical aircraft that lost contact on a flight from Bermuda to Boston early on Saturday. The plane is a Gulfstream G100 operated by Latitude Air Ambulance, with six people on board. The Federal Aviation Administration told the Coast Guard it had lost contact around 2 a.m. Planes, a helicopter and boats are in the search.

FlightAware data carried by CNN showed the jet at 24,000 feet for more than an hour, then a drop of 13,000 feet in two minutes. The FAA issued a search-and-rescue alert at about 1:20 a.m. The aircraft had left L.F. Wade International Airport in Bermuda for Logan Airport in Boston. Latitude's director of flight operations, Clarence Togeretz, told CBC that the company lost contact around 1:30 a.m. and called the Coast Guard after the plane failed to land on schedule. He confirmed to the New York Times that the aircraft was missing and said Latitude had contacted search-and-rescue and law enforcement. He declined to add detail on the flight.

The crew is four people, all Canadian: two pilots and two medical staff. They had flown to Bermuda to collect a patient and a relative. Those two are not Canadian, Togeretz said. Latitude's site says its G100s are typically staffed with a nurse and a respiratory therapist. The company operates 10 aircraft, four of them Gulfstream G100s. Canadian records list this airframe as built in 1996 and on Latitude's register since 2018.

A medical transfer flight is a different operation from a scheduled airline sector. The cabin is arranged for a patient, not for rows of seats. The routing, Bermuda to Boston overnight, fits a repatriation or a hospital move. Latitude describes itself as a medical evacuation and repatriation firm. Togeretz is the named company voice. No passenger manifest has been published beyond the six: four crew, one patient, one relative.

The descent figure is the sharpest fact in the public record so far. Thirteen thousand feet in two minutes is not a normal arrival profile into Boston, and it happened over the water off Nantucket, about 30 miles south of Cape Cod. The Coast Guard's search box sits there. An alert at 1:20 a.m. and a company call after a missed landing are consistent with each other. They do not yet explain why the aircraft left 24,000 feet. The Coast Guard has not reported debris or a distress call in the copy available on Saturday.

Age of the airframe is not a cause. A 1996 Gulfstream still in medical service in 2026 is a known type, and Latitude has three other G100s. What the register does establish is continuity: the same operator since 2018, Canadian crew, a patient pick-up in Bermuda. Any later finding on maintenance or weather has to start from that, not from a guess about the airline.

Until the search reports wreckage, a beacon, or survivors, the status is a missing aircraft with six people named only by role. The patient and the relative have not been identified in public. The four Canadians have not been named either. The next factual step is a Coast Guard update from the water off Nantucket, not a company statement about the wider fleet. Latitude has 10 aircraft. One of them is the subject of this search.