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UPDATE: This was a Cal-Ore Life Flight plane. Communication with the aircraft was lost just after 1:05 a.m.
A pilot was taking a flight nurse, a transport medic and a patient from Crescent City, near the OR border, to Oakland.
Don Wharton, REACH Director of Business Relations, said he could not provide the identities of those on board or other details at this time.
Rescue crews have located wreckage believed to be that of a missing Cal-Ore Life Flight that departed Crescent City early this morning bound for Oakland but went missing somewhere near Arcata, and two fatalities have been confirmed. That’s when a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter will assist in the search, said Lt. Wayne Hanson of the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office, which is leading the pursuit on the ground. The aircraft, tail number N661TC, which had been scheduled to fly from Crescent City to Oakland has not been heard of since.
The plane, a Piper Cheyenne II, left its base at the Crescent City Airport for Oakland International Airport.
But radar contact with the plane was lost about five miles northeast of Arcata Airport, the FAA said.
Authorities say they’re searching for a small medical transport plane with four people aboard that has been missing for about eight hours in Northern California.
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The Federal Aviation Administration database lists the plane as being registered to Blue Goose Aviation of Roseburg, Oregon.
