Plane Carrying 10 People Goes Missing in Alaska

The Cessna caravan was traveling from Alaska’s Unalakleet to Nome.

The city of Nome, Alaska, awaits the first Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race musher on March 14, 2023. Loren Holmes/Anchorage Daily News via AP

A search has been launched after a Bering Air plane carrying 10 people went missing from radar near Nome in Alaska on Thursday afternoon, according to local officials.

The plane, a Cessna caravan, was en route from Alaska’s Unalakleet to Nome when it disappeared from radar, the Nome Volunteer Fire Department said in a statement.