US coastguard suspends search for six on board crashed medical jet

Debris found off Nantucket Island after the air ambulance disappeared while flying from Bermuda to Boston.The United States coastguard has suspended its search for six people on board a medical transport jet that crashed while flying from Bermuda to Boston.“Suspending a search is not an easy decision,” Rear Admiral Matthew Lake, commander of the ⁠coastguard’s Northeast District, said in a statement on Sunday.Recommended Stories list of 2 itemslist 1 of 2Brazil’s presidential race: Three key takeaways from the first roundlist 2 of 2Nicaragua says it will withdraw from Central American Parliamentend of listThe search was called off after teams spent about 66 hours covering 4,445 miles (7,150km) by air and sea and confirmed that debris found off the shore of Massachusetts’s Nantucket Island came from the aircraft.The Gulfstream G100 carried two pilots, two medical staff, a patient and a relative, Clarence Togeretz, director of flight operations at Canada-based Latitude Air Ambulance, told Canada’s public broadcaster CBC.The four crew members were Canadian, and the two passengers were Bermudian, according to authorities.In a statement on Sunday, Latitude Air Ambulance said, “Given the information shared by authorities and the conclusion of ⁠the search-and-rescue phase, we must now face the heartbreaking reality that the four members of our Latitude team, our patient and the patient’s family escort, who were ⁠aboard Heartbeat 104, are presumed to have died.”Attention has turned to what happened in the jet’s final minutes, when flight-tracking data showed a steep descent and air traffic controllers struggled to re-establish contact.Authorities have not determined what caused the aircraft to come down.The aircraft had flown to Bermuda to collect the patient and was heading to Boston-logan-international-airport" class="entity-link entity-location" data-entity-id="438" data-entity-type="location">Boston Logan International Airport.