One individual was useless and 9 others have been lacking Sunday after a floatplane crashed in Washington state’s Puget Sound close to Seattle, the U.S. Coast Guard mentioned.
9 adults and one baby have been aboard the aircraft en route from Friday Harbor, a well-liked vacationer vacation spot within the San Juan Islands, to Renton, a Seattle suburb, in accordance with the USCG Pacific Northwest. UCSG tweeted that one physique had been present in Mutiny Bay as crews looked for survivors.
“Search updates shall be supplied as they turn into accessible,” USCG tweeted.
Float planes, which have pontoons permitting them to land on water, are a standard sight across the Puget Sound, an inlet of the Pacific Ocean. There are a number of, every day flights between the Seattle space and the San Juans, a scenic archipelago that attracts vacationers from all over the world.
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Renton is on the southern tip of Lake Washington about 10 miles southeast of Seattle.
The aircraft was a de Havilland Canada DHC-3 Turbine Otter, in accordance with the Nationwide Transportation Security Board, the Seattle Instances reported.
Mutiny Bay is west of Whidbey Island and about 40 miles northwest of Seattle. A number of companies have been on the scene into Sunday evening to help within the investigation, together with native hearth and police departments.
Contributing: The Related Press
