Air Ambulance Gulfstream missing with 6 souls

[Cherokee_Cruiser]

Yikes.

G100 Bermuda to Boston

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/hamilton-air-ambulance-missing-us-coast-guard-search-9.7368182

 

[azmedic]

Looks like USCG is out there searching still

 

[T/O w/FSII]

Really an IA-1125, only a Gulfstream because they bought them and changed the name to a G100, which is how I got both the type ratings on one checkride. 30 year old jet.

Not a good week for air ambulance.

 

[Cherokee_Cruiser]

Really an IA-1125, only a Gulfstream because they bought them and changed the name to a G100, which is how I got both the type ratings on one checkride. 30 year old jet.

Not a good week for air ambulance.

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The heli down in Catalina I heard. Anything else I missed? Double / triple yikes.

 

[tcco94]

Dropped down to 11k and then stabilized for a bit.

 

[mightynimbus]

I guess wreckage has been found, ugh.
Seems maybe the cabin pressure went away, I dunno.
is it possible it got dumped on accident while turning on hot items?

 

[DropTank]

Debris found, search suspended.

6 on board
2 crew
2 medical team
1 patient
1 associate of patient.

Rescuers suspend search for survivors after plane went missing off US coast

The aircraft lost communication with flight controllers after significantly dropping in altitude, according to flight data.

www.bbc.com

 

[MikeD]

hopefully it wasn’t like that medevac Lear 55 out of PHL that crashed shortly after takeoff, descending on fire into a neighborhood.

 

[DropTank]

hopefully it wasn’t like that medevac Lear 55 out of PHL that crashed shortly after takeoff, descending on fire into a neighborhood.

Reports showing trouble at 25000, then rapid loss of altitude.

Unconfirmed report of RADAR and COMMS problems.

I don't have earlier Satellite data for storms.

 

[Inverted]

They did appear to fly through weather. Can't imagine what else happened.

 

[DropTank]

They did appear to fly through weather. Can't imagine what else happened.

ok so, thunderstorm, hail, knocked out the radar and antenna.

 

[BobDDuck]

Not to be pedantic, but the thread title is a bit off. The plane was about 730 miles away from Bermuda when it crashed, about 5 miles south of Nantucket.

 

[Pilot Fighter]

Really an IA-1125, only a Gulfstream because they bought them and changed the name to a G100, which is how I got both the type ratings on one checkride. 30 year old jet.

Not a good week for air ambulance.

Yeah, but they kept making them forever. I think it was 2016 or 2017 when they finally stopped production.

 

[Fixtur]

The weather that was in the area at the time wasn't particularly intense - no convection that could produce any hail. Mainly light to moderate in rain.

Source: I was flying around in it all day.

Fix

 

[tomokc]

Assuming they could be recovered and readable, would this aircraft have had an FDR or CVR?

 

[Cherokee_Cruiser]

Not to be pedantic, but the thread title is a bit off. The plane was about 730 miles away from Bermuda when it crashed, about 5 miles south of Nantucket.

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I was just posting the news at the time, when they said missing.

“Air Ambulance Gulfstream missing with 6 souls”

 

[arkavgal]

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I was just posting the news at the time, when they said missing.

“Air Ambulance Gulfstream missing with 6 souls”

I think they were referencing the title of the other thread about this accident that was merged with this one.

 

[tcco94]

They did appear to fly through weather. Can't imagine what else happened.

Didn’t even look convective. They declared emergency, rapid descent and then that was the last we heard. Can’t imagine this is weather related

 

[SteveC]

Not to be pedantic, but the thread title is a bit off. The plane was about 730 miles away from Bermuda when it crashed, about 5 miles south of Nantucket.

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I was just posting the news at the time, when they said missing.

“Air Ambulance Gulfstream missing with 6 souls”

I think they were referencing the title of the other thread about this accident that was merged with this one.