The U.S. Coast Guard in Alaska said Friday it had discovered the remains of an aircraft near Gnome, about 885km (550 miles) northwest of Anchorage.
Coast Guard spokesman Mike Salerno told a press conference that two of the staff members would be fully close to the wreckage and see the three bodies inside, Al Jazeera reported.
“Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to be a viable crash,” Salerno said.
A privately run Cessna 208B Grand Caravan carrying nine passengers and one pilot went missing Thursday afternoon.
The last known location of the plane exceeded the water range about 50 kilometers (30 miles) southeast of the Gnome.
The crash was the third air disaster in the US in just over a week.
On January 28, a local commercial jetliner collided in the air with a US helicopter near Washington, DC, killing 67 people.
Two days later, a medical transport crashed into a busy Philadelphia neighborhood, killing six people on board and one on the ground.
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