Six Presumed Dead in Air Ambulance Crash Near Nantucket
A Latitude Air Ambulance Gulfstream G100 medevac jet crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, approximately 20 miles south of Nantucket, Massachusetts. All six people on board are now presumed dead. The aircraft, registered as C-GRJP and operating under the call sign Heartbeat 104, departed from Bermuda’s L.F. Wade International Airport shortly after midnight on October 3, 2026. It was bound for Boston Logan International Airport on a routine medical evacuation flight.
The crew reported electrical problems and declared an emergency as the jet approached the Massachusetts coastline. Preliminary flight tracking data showed the aircraft descending sharply from a cruising altitude of approximately 24,000 feet to around 11,000 feet within minutes before vanishing from radar. The FAA immediately alerted the U.S. Coast Guard, which launched an extensive search-and-rescue operation covering more than 4,445 square miles over 66 hours before suspending the effort on Sunday evening.
A debris field from the aircraft was discovered in waters 80 to 90 feet deep south of Nantucket. The six aboard included two pilots and two medical crew members — all Canadian nationals — along with a Bermudian patient, Marilyn Lavonne Bean, 66, and her son Sergio Wayne Lottimore, 41. Hamilton, Ontario-based Latitude Air Ambulance confirmed it is cooperating fully with both the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and Canada’s Transportation Safety Board as the investigation into the cause of the crash gets underway.
Source: GlobalAir.com – Latitude Air Ambulance G100 crashes south of Nantucket; search ends