How many people were aboard the medical plane missing near Nantucket?

The aircraft’s role as an air ambulance does not establish who, if anyone, was receiving medical care on this flight. The reporting does not identify either passenger, describe a medical condition or explain why the flight was headed to Boston. Those details cannot be inferred from the aircraft’s designation.

Bermuda’s premier, David Burt, said his government was in contact with families. “We are praying that all six people will be found safe, and we thank the search and rescue crews for their continuing efforts,” Burt said in remarks reported by CBS News. The report did not specify what information families had received about the search.

MacKinnon said Canada was monitoring the situation and working with authorities as search-and-rescue efforts continued. That response reflects the presence of four Canadian nationals aboard; it does not establish the nationality of either passenger or of any particular crew member.

Where was the plane flying when contact was lost?

The flight left L.F. Wade International Airport in Bermuda for Boston Logan International Airport. It went missing off Nantucket before reaching its destination, according to the accounts of the Federal Aviation Administration and Coast Guard cited by CBS News.

CBS News reported that FlightAware data put takeoff at about 11:40 p.m. Eastern time Friday and indicated the aircraft had been flying for about an hour and 45 minutes before it went missing. Those are reported tracking figures, not a finding about precisely what occurred after contact stopped.

The same CBS News account said FlightAware data showed a rapid descent from about 24,000 feet to about 11,000 feet before contact was lost. The figures describe that service’s reported flight path; they do not establish the plane’s final location or explain why it descended.

That distinction matters for the six people aboard. A record of the aircraft’s earlier movement cannot show where each person is now or whether anyone needs assistance. It also cannot, on its own, turn a missing-aircraft report into a confirmed account of a crash.

How has the Coast Guard searched near Nantucket?

After the Federal Aviation Administration reported losing contact with the plane, the Coast Guard launched an air and surface search off Nantucket. The use of both aircraft and vessels is a description of the response, not evidence that the plane or anyone aboard has been found.

By Saturday evening, the Coast Guard told CBS News Boston that the search would “continue through the night until further notice.” That was the agency’s stated plan at the time; the available account does not say what overnight crews would find.

The search is the immediate effort to locate the aircraft and the people aboard. Questions about why contact was lost are separate from that task. No cause has been established in the reporting, and the flight-tracking figures do not supply one.

Nor does a continuing search answer the question families most urgently face: the condition of the four crew members and two passengers. No confirmed account in the available reporting says that any of them have been found, survived or died.

What remains unknown about the plane and the six aboard?

Authorities’ account establishes a route, a loss of contact and a search area off Nantucket. It does not establish what happened to the plane after contact was lost, where it is or what caused the emergency. Treating any of those unanswered questions as settled would go beyond the reported facts.

The identities and condition of all six people also remain unconfirmed in the available account. Skyport’s crew-and-passenger count and MacKinnon’s nationality figure describe groups aboard, not the circumstances of individual people. Neither figure identifies who may have been receiving care.

There is no verified account here of the plane being found or of an outcome for those aboard. The reported descent may help frame questions about the flight’s final minutes, but it cannot answer them without further confirmed information.

For now, the clearest update from the search authorities is the Coast Guard’s Saturday evening statement that crews would keep looking overnight. What they locate—and what they can confirm to families about the six people aboard—remains the consequential unanswered question.