Coast Guard searching off Nantucket for medical evacuation jet with 6 on board

The U.S. Coast Guard is searching for a Gulfstream jet carrying six people that lost contact with flight controllers Saturday morning on its way to Boston from the island of Bermuda.

The Coast Guard said air and surface crews have launched in search of the aircraft, a Gulfstream G100 jet.

The plane was carrying out a medical evacuation in Bermuda, said Clarence Togeretz, the director of flight operations at Latitude Air Ambulance, which operates the plane.

“We always get rather concerned when our crew doesn’t report to us in a timely manner,” he told NBC News. “But I will say that again, optimistically and positively, that doesn’t mean that the worst has happened.”

Togeretz added that Latitude Air Ambulance has an emergency response plan in place “absolutely for anything that might occur to any of our missions.”

Latitude Air Ambulance is a Canadian-based medical transportation company that operates specially equipped private airplanes to transport and treat the sick or injured, according to the company’s website. The company serves private clients seeking bedside-to-bedside medical, patients who required advanced care not available at their originating hospital and insured patients who become critically ill or injured while abroad, according to the website.

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