Coast Guard searches for medical jet with six aboard off Nantucket

The U.S. Coast Guard is searching off Nantucket, Massachusetts, for a Gulfstream G100 air ambulance carrying six people that lost contact with air traffic controllers early Saturday after departing Bermuda for Boston. The plane left Bermuda International Airport at 11:41 p.m. Friday; flight data showed it dropped altitude significantly before losing communication around 1 a.m. Four Canadians and two people picked up in Bermuda were aboard, the New York Times reported. Search planes and helicopters were deployed.