The wreckage of an aircraft that was known to have disappeared from radar with 10 people on board in Alaska, in the northwestern United States, has been located, authorities said yesterday Friday, clarifying that no one survived when it crashed.

The plane’s carcass was found nearly 55 kilometers from the town of Noem, Alaska, the U.S. Coast Guard clarified.

Three people were found inside, all of them dead, the state coastguard said via X, the state coastguard said. “The remaining seven people are inside the aircraft” but access is impossible “due to the condition” of the plane, it added.

Noem volunteer firefighters said their own information said the crash “left no chance” of survival for the passengers.

The plane with nine passengers and the pilot was initially reported to have been delayed, according to Alaska State Police.

It was operating a route from Unalaclitt to Noum, 235 kilometers (235 miles) away, via Norton Sound, a bay in the Bering Sea.

According to flight tracking website FlighRadar24, the aircraft’s last known position was over water about 40 minutes after take-off.

The crash follows two other aviation tragedies in the US.

On January 30, a collision between a liner plane and a military helicopter in Washington DC resulted in 67 people losing their lives. And on February 1, a medical evacuation aircraft crashed in a Philadelphia neighborhood resulting in the deaths of seven people, six on board the aircraft and one on the ground.