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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 focus on the ongoing search and the plan to comb the seabed, and both frame the missing flight as a Bermuda to Boston trip. The South China Morning Post adds that the aircraft was an air ambulance with six people aboard and quotes the US Coast Guard, while The Independent uniquely says the plane had four crew members and two passengers when it left Bermuda’s L.F. Wade Airport.

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