Coast Guard is searching for missing airplane
A plane carrying four New Yorkers, including two children, is missing after it failed to arrive in Titusville, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.
Nathan Ulrich, Jennifer Blumin and Blumin’s sons aged 10 and 4 were on the flight that left from Borinquen, Puerto Rico, on around 11 a.m. Monday.
About three hours after it took off, Miami Air Traffic Control lost radio contact with the white and green MU-2B plane 37 miles east of the Bahamian island of Eleuthera.
Multiple U.S. Coast Guard air crews searched Monday for the plane that was supposed to arrive in Titusville for refueling, according to Bay News 9.
#Update Picture of overdue aircraft, MU-2B airplane, tail number N220N. https://t.co/49uGJTgVDt pic.twitter.com/VoBOSvVDC3
— USCGSoutheast (@USCGSoutheast) May 16, 2017
Customs and Border Patrol and the Royal Bahamas Defense Force are helping in the search, according to the Coast Guard.
Hannah Morse: 941-745-7055, @mannahhorse
This story was originally published May 16, 2017 at 12:53 PM with the headline "Coast Guard is searching for missing airplane."