The wreckage of Bering Air Flight 445, which crashed near Nome, Alaska on Thursday, has been located. All ten victims perished in the accident, and their remains have been recovered. The NTSB is investigating the cause of the crash.
All ten victims aboard a missing aircraft near Nome, Alaska , have been recovered, according to the city's fire department. Three victims were found Friday in the wreckage of Bering Air Flight 445, which landed on an ice floe. Crews recovered the remaining seven victims on Saturday, the Nome Volunteer Fire Department reported. The crash site is moving approximately 5 miles a day, National Transportation Safety Board ( NTSB ) chair Jennifer Homendy said at a news conference on Saturday.
She added that the area where the Cessna 208 Caravan went down is also expecting some snow, which was expected to hinder recovery operations. \'The NTSB knows that villages like Nome and Alaska aviation are tight-knit communities, so this tragedy affects so many,' Homendy said. 'Please know that we will work diligently to determine how this happened with the ultimate goal of improving safety here in Alaska and across the United States.' Victim recovery was the NTSB's primary focus, and now crews will work to recover the Caravan's wreckage. Investigators told CBS News transportation correspondent Kris Van Cleave on Saturday that the aircraft is not equipped with voice or data recorders as it is not a requirement. Following victim recovery, authorities will search for other avionic components that store electronic data which may help paint a clearer picture of what led to the crash. \The Bering Air Caravan that initially went missing on February 6 on its way to Nome experienced a rapid loss in altitude and speed, prompting the Coast Guard to launch a search and rescue operation, officials said earlier. It was the third major U.S. aviation incident in eight days. An American Eagle flight and Army Black Hawk helicopter collided and plunged into the Potomac River near Washington, D.C., on January 29, killing all 67 people on the two aircraft. A medical transportation plane crashed in Philadelphia on January 31, killing the six people on board and one more on the ground
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