周日，美国海岸警卫队表示，搜救工作仍在马萨诸塞州海岸外继续进行，寻找一架从百慕大飞往波士顿途中失联、机上载有六人的空中救护机，当局计划搜搜海底。
A search continued on Sunday off the Massachusetts coast for an air ambulance carrying six people that disappeared during a flight from Bermuda to Boston as authorities planned to comb the seabed, the US Coast Guard said.
联邦航空管理局于周六凌晨2点联系海岸警卫队，称其已失去与一架载有四名加拿大人和两名百慕大国民的湾流G100公务机在大西洋上空的联系。海岸警卫队东北区指挥官马特·莱克少将周日在新闻发布会上表示，搜救人员周六晚些时候在南塔基特岛海岸外发现了一片“残骸区”。
The Federal Aviation Administration contacted the coastguard at 2am on Saturday saying it had lost contact with the Gulfstream G100 carrying four Canadians and two Bermudian nationals over the Atlantic Ocean. Searchers later on Saturday found a “debris field” off the coast of Nantucket, Coast Guard Northeast District Rear Admiral Matt Lake said at a news conference on Sunday.
海岸警卫队机组人员、纽约国民警卫队航空救援联队以及马萨诸塞州当局随后动用固定翼飞机、直升机、船只和巡逻艇，搜索了涵盖7,356平方公里（2,840平方英里）的区域。莱克说：“这是一个庞大且极具挑战性的搜索区域。”
Coastguard crews along with the New York National Guard’s Air Rescue Wing and Massachusetts authorities have since searched an area encompassing 7,356 sq km (2,840 square miles) using fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, boats and cutters.
残骸区周围水深约24至27米（80至90英尺）。莱克表示，海岸警卫队正在部署声纳搜寻海底。
“This is a large and demanding search area,” Lake said.
莱克说，海岸警卫队一直在向机上人员的直系亲属通报搜救进展，该空中救护机由加拿大方面运营。
The depth of the water around the debris field was about 24 to 27 metres (80ft to 90ft). The coastguard was in the process of deploying sonar to search the seabed, he said.
东北区响应部门主管、海岸警卫队约翰·麦克塔姆尼上尉表示，天气并未影响搜救工作。
The coastguard has been updating the next of kin of those aboard the Canadian-ed air ambulance with the progress of the search, Lake said.
麦克塔姆尼说：“我们将继续搜索并全面覆盖该区域，直到我们确信如果水面上还有幸存者，我们本应已经找到他们为止。”
Weather has not been a factor in the search efforts, said coastguard Captain John McTamney, chief of response for the northeast district.
据百慕大机场运营商Skyport发表的声明称，该飞机从百慕大L.F.韦德国际机场起飞执行夜间飞往马萨诸塞州的任务时，机上有四名机组人员和两名乘客。
“We’ll continue to search and saturate the area until we’re at the point where we are confident that if there were any survivors remaining on the surface of the water, we would have found them,” McTamney said.
空管录音显示，在风暴逼近、飞机消失前不久，该机可能处于“盲飞”状态。
The plane had four crew members and two passengers aboard when it departed Bermuda’s L.F. Wade International Airport for the nighttime flight to Massachusetts, according to a statement from the Bermuda airport’s operator, Skyport.
根据LiveATC.net发布的空管音频，飞行员在飞机接近海岸时报告了电气故障并宣布进入紧急状态。“收到，你说你是盲飞进场。是这样吗？”可以听到管制员询问飞行员。
Air traffic audio indicates that the plane may have been “coming in blind” when a storm loomed ahead shortly before it vanished.
这让前运输部监察长玛丽·希亚沃认为，飞机可能在雷达上显示风暴移入其航道时失去了导航仪表。根据飞行追踪网站FlightRadar24的初步数据，飞机还从约24,000英尺的巡航高度急剧下降至约10,000英尺。
The pilot reported electrical problems and declared an emergency as the plane approached the coast, according to air traffic control audio posted by LiveATC.net. “Roger, you said you’re coming in blind. Is that what you said?” a controller can be heard asking the pilot.
“这次大幅度下降表明发生了严重情况，而且他们飞入了大风暴区，”航空律师希亚沃说。“在失去仪表、盲飞的情况下，非常容易失去方向感，不知道自己是在转弯、爬升、下降等。”
That makes Mary Schiavo, who is a former Inspector General of the Transportation Department, think the plane may have lost its navigational instruments just as a storm moved across its path on radar. The plane also descended sharply from its cruising altitude of around 24,000ft to around 10,000ft, according to preliminary data from flight tracking site FlightRadar24.
加拿大交通部长史蒂文·麦金农在社交媒体上表示，加拿大交通部正在密切监控并与当局合作开展搜救工作。
“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, who is an aviation lawyer. “It’s very easy to get disoriented and not know if you’re turning, climbing, descending, etc.” Transport Canada was closely monitoring and working with authorities on search and rescue efforts, the country’s Minister of Transport Steven MacKinnon said on social media.