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1 person is dead and 9 are missing after a small plane crashed in the Puget Sound

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LANGLEY, Wash. — One individual was killed and 9 individuals remained lacking after a float aircraft crashed within the Puget Sound in Washington state on Sunday, the U.S. Coast Guard mentioned.

The agency said via Twitter Sunday afternoon that the aircraft was flying from Friday Harbor, a preferred vacationer vacation spot within the San Juan Islands, to Renton, Washington. Beforehand the Coast Guard had mentioned the aircraft was flying to Seattle-Tacoma Worldwide Airport.

The crash occurred in Mutiny Bay, off Whidbey Island, about 40 miles (64 kilometers) northwest of Seattle.

The Coast Guard mentioned one physique was recovered and 9 individuals stay lacking.

Float planes, planes which have pontoons permitting them to land on water, are a typical sight across the Puget Sound, an inlet of the Pacific Ocean. There are a number of, every day flights between the Seattle space and the San Juan Islands, a scenic archipelago northwest of Seattle that pulls vacationers from around the globe.

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The plane, which additionally fly between Seattle and Vancouver, British Columbia, continuously fly by way of Seattle and land in a lake not removed from town’s iconic Area Needle.

Renton, the place authorities say the flight was headed Sunday, is on the southern tip of Lake Washington about 10 miles (16 kilometers) southeast of Seattle.

In Might 2019, six individuals have been killed in a midair collision between two Alaska sightseeing planes. The Ketchikan-based floatplanes carrying passengers from the identical cruise ship, the Royal Princess, have been coming back from excursions of Misty Fjords Nationwide Monument.

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