One person was killed and nine are still missing, including a child, after a seaplane crashed north of Seattle in the northwestern United States on Sunday, the US Coast Guard said.
The plane had departed from Friday Harbor, a popular tourist destination in the San Juan Islands, Washington state, and was headed to the city of Renton, in the same state.
The plane was only in the air for 19 minutes before crashing in Mutiny Bay around 3:11 p.m. (11:11 p.m. Sunday in Lisbon) for reasons still unknown.
Initially, the US authorities indicated, on the social network Twitter, that nine people were traveling on board, but later they said that ten people were traveling on the aircraft.
Washington authorities established a security perimeter at the site, 64 kilometers from Seattle, to which several emergency teams were deployed, as well as four boats, a helicopter and a plane.
In May 2019, six people were killed in a mid-air collision between two tour seaplanes in Alaska.
The planes, based in Ketchikan, carrying passengers from the same cruise ship, the Princess Royal, were returning from flights through Misty Fjords, considered US national monuments.
Source: TSF
