Authorities are searching rural Alaska for an aircraft that went missing while carrying 10 people. Officials say the Bering Air Caravan was reported missing at about 4 p.m.

The plane was reported as "overdue" as it hasn't yet been classified as a crash or accident, but medics are on standby in case this changes.

A search for a missing plane carrying 10 people is under way in Alaska. The Bering Air flight left Unalakleet at 2.38pm on Thursday but contact was lost less than an hour later, the firm's operations director David Olson said.

Authorities are frantically searching for an airplane carrying 10 people that went missing on its way to Nome, Alaska, according to officials. A Bering Air flight from Unalakleet to Nome failed to land as scheduled at 4 p.

Bering Air flight from Unalakleet to Nome reported overdue, prompting air and ground search efforts under challenging weather conditions, say media reports - Anadolu Ajansı

Federal and local authorities said late Thursday they are searching for a plane with 10 people aboard that has gone missing in western Alaska.

A search is underway in Alaska after a plane with 10 people on board never arrived in Nome when scheduled, officials said. The Bering Air Caravan flight, from Unalakleet to Nome, was reported overdue to Alaska State Troopers at 4 p.