BETHEL (US), DECEMBER 9: Rescuers have located a missing commuter plane in western Alaska and the bodies of the six people who were on board.The Cessna 207 with one pilot and five passengers had departed the airport of Bethel on Tuesday in heavy snow and disappeared on its way to coastal villages on the Bering Sea.Military aircraft, including several helicopters, flew along the most likely flight path of the missing plane throughout the night but failed to locate it.Searchers on the ground combed the area where overnight temperatures fell to more than ten degrees celsius below zero.A signal by the plane's emergency locator transmitter was picked up late Tuesday, but the signal's exact point of origin was only pinpointed late Wednesday, said Kay Smithson, a spokeswoman for the Alaska State Troopers in Bethel.The plane, owned by grant aviation, left Bethel for a round-trip flight to villages 160 km north of the town. No cause for the crash was given.
