Rescue crews are in a race against time to find survivors aboard the Bering Air Flight 445 and are working in ‘zero visibility conditions’

The search in northwest Alaska intensified Friday for a plane that disappeared with 10 people on board after "an item of interest" was located, officials there say. Bering Air Flight 445 — a Cessna 208B Grand Caravan — was carrying nine passengers and a pilot from Unalakleet to Nome when it went missing on Thursday afternoon,

A small Bering Air plane that crashed with 10 people on board in Alaska has been located, authorities have said. The US Coast Guard said the aircraft was discovered around 34 miles southeast of Nome in western Alaska and that it believed there were no survivors.