当局正在搜寻本周末在北卡罗莱纳州海岸坠毁的一架载有八人的飞机残骸。
卡特雷特县治安官阿萨·巴克周一在新闻发布会上说,已经确认了一人的身份,但官员们仍在寻找其他乘客的遗体。
他说,“没有迹象表明有人在坠机中幸存”。
皮拉图斯PC-12单引擎客机周日坠入大西洋。
根据一份新闻稿,海岸警卫队在当晚收到一份来自空中交通管制员的报告后做出了回应,该报告称,有人看到一架飞机在雷达上表现不正常,然后从雷达屏幕上消失。
治安部门、国家公园管理局海滩工作人员、美国拖船和东消防部门也参与了救援工作。
然而,搜索因残骸被移到更远的海洋中而受阻。
“那次搜寻和一些恢复一直进行到晚上,一直到凌晨,”巴克说。“然后今天早上,许多机构回来,再次找到了离海岸更远的碎片场——离岸5、10、15英里。”
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巴克注意到现在有三个独立的碎片区。
他说:“目前,我们还在寻找飞机的主要部分——机身,试图找到飞机的那个部分,并继续寻找飞机上的乘客。
海岸警卫队的一名代表说,“远至新泽西州梅角的船只”正在进行搜索。
1 dead, 7 missing after plane crashes off North Carolina coast
Authorities are searching for the wreckage of a plane that crashed off the coast of North Carolina with eight people aboard this weekend.
One person has been identified, but officials are still in the process of locating the remains of the other passengers, Carteret County Sheriff Asa Buck said in a press conference Monday.
There is "no indication that anyone survived the crash," he said.
The Pilatus PC-12 single-engine passenger aircraft crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on Sunday.
The Coast Guard responded that evening after receiving a report from an air traffic controller stating that an aircraft was seen behaving erratically on radar and then disappeared from the radar screen, according to a news release.
The sheriff's department, National Park Service beach crews, Towboat U.S. and the Down East Fire Department are also involved in the recovery efforts.
However, the search has been hampered by the wreckage being moved farther into the ocean.
"That search and some of the recovery went well into the evening, into the early morning," Buck said. "And then this morning, numerous agencies came back out and located the debris field again which had moved further offshore – 5, 10, 15 miles offshore."
Buck noted that there were three separate debris fields now.
"We are also still, at this time, in the process of locating the main part of the plane, the fuselage, in an attempt to locate that section of the plane and to continue to locate the passengers on board the plane," he said.
A Coast Guard representative said "vessels from as far away as Cape May, New Jersey," are working on the search.