11 missing after plane vanishes en route to N.Y.

[Ari707]

11 missing after plane vanishes en route to N.Y.
Official: Emergency signal received after flight leaves Dominican Republic
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11 missing after plane vanishes en route to N.Y.
NBC News and news services
updated 1 hour, 2 minutes ago
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic - A plane en route to New York with 11 people on board disappeared after taking off from the Dominican Republic, authorities said Tuesday.

The Atlantis Airlines plane, which was expected to make a refueling stop in the Bahamas, sent an emergency signal before disappearing from the radar 35 minutes after takeoff on about 3:30 p.m. Monday, said Jose Tomas Perez, director of the Dominican Civil Aviation Institute.

The U.S. Coast Guard and other agencies were searching in the Atlantic Ocean about 4 miles west of West Caicos island but has not found any wreckage, said Nick Ameen, a spokesman.

The plane, a multiengine Britton-Norman Islander, departed from Santiago in the Dominican Republic, he said.

NBC News reported that no Americans were aboard the flight.


Something tells me this flight wasn't really coming to NY

[moose135]

According to an A.net thread, from a Puerto Rican newspaper article, it sounds like their ultimate destination was New York, but certainly they weren't going non-stop.

Also, just saw Newsday reporting this...
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld ... 7356.story

Plane, perhaps bound for NYC, reported missing
Turboprop took off Monday from Dominican Republic with 11 passengers

BY JOHN VALENTI | [email protected]
10:06 AM EST, December 16, 2008

Authorities Tuesday were searching for a small turboprop airliner that disappeared Monday afternoon shortly after takeoff from the Dominican Republic.

The plane, with 11 people on board, was en route to New York, The Associated Press reported. A Federal Aviation Administration official in New York told Newsday it could not be immediately confirmed that the aircraft was, in fact, headed to New York -- and officials were still scrambling to find information on Tuesday.

The Associated Press said the plane, believed to be a twin-engine Britton-Norman Islander, belonged to Atlantis Airlines. A check of the Web listed the airlines as being based in Senegal. Contact information was unavailable.