Debris from vanished Boston-bound plane found by Coast Guard amid massive search off Nantucket

Debris from an air ambulance that mysteriously vanished early Saturday in the waters off Nantucket has been discovered floating in the ocean, the US Coast Guard confirmed.

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Crews from the Boston-based Coast Guard cutter William Sparling rushed to the scene off the coast of Massachusetts and were sifting through wreckage to identify parts of the downed medical transport plane, a USCG spokesperson told The Post Saturday night.

The doomed Gulfstream G100 twinjet was en route from Bermuda’s L.F. Wade International Airport to Boston Logan International Airport when it suddenly went dark on Federal Aviation Administration radar shortly before its scheduled 1:25 a.m. landing, according to the Coast Guard and FlightAware.

Six people were on board — four Canadians, including two medics and two pilots, as well as a Bermudian patient and their relative, operator Latitude Air Ambulance revealed to The Canadian Press. Their names were not made public.

Coast Guard Base Boston was expected to hold a press conference at 11 a.m. Sunday to provide updates on the search and rescue efforts.

A full-scale probe will likely be spearheaded by the National Transportation Safety Board or its Canadian counterpart, the Transportation Safety Board of Canada, said the Coast Guard spokesperson.

Chilling air traffic control recordings from LiveATC.net revealed a New York controller frantically trying to contact the pilot before the crash.

“You’re coming in blind? Is that what you said?” the air traffic controller asked around 12:46 a.m. “Are you declaring an emergency or no?

“You’re coming in a little weak so I didn’t hear what your response was,” the controller added.

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The flight then suffered a terrifying dive, plunging from 24,000 feet to 11,000 feet in roughly three minutes starting at about 1:04 a.m., before stabilizing, according to FlightAware data.

A Massport Fire Rescue dispatcher asked emergency crews at 1:12 a.m. to get ready for a plane with an “electrical issue” to land in Boston in about 15 minutes, according to radio audio captured by Broadcastify and reviewed by The Boston Globe. 

“The aircraft has lost radio and radar,” the dispatcher said of the plane.

An official search and rescue alert notice was triggered around 1:20 a.m., an FAA spokesperson confirmed to The Post.

“The FAA is coordinating with the Rescue Coordination Center and the U.S. Coast Guard to locate the aircraft,” the agency said.

Former inspector general of the Transportation Department Mary Schiavo told the Associated Press that the plane may have lost control of its navigational instruments in the midst of a storm.

“Something bad happened with this big drop, and they flew into this big storm. It’s a terrible place to have a loss of your instruments and be flying blind,” said Schiavo. 

“It’s very easy to get disoriented and not know if you’re turning, climbing, descending, etc. Spatial orientation hits pretty quickly.”

The US Coast Guard identifies victims or missing people 24 hours after next of kin are notified, according to an agency spokesperson.

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