“All ten individuals aboard the Bering Air plane have been officially brought home,” the Nome Volunteer Fire Department said in a Facebook post Saturday night. “Nome SAR efforts stand by for our ...

The victims — who were onboard the Bering Air plane before it crashed outside of Nome on Thursday, Feb. 6 — were between the ages of 30 and 58 Brenton Blanchet is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE.

Bering Air Flight 445, a Cessna 208B, crashed into sea ice about 34 miles southeast of Nome, Alaska, after going missing during a flight Thursday afternoon, authorities said. There were nine ...

The Nome Volunteer Fire Department made the announcement on its Facebook page Saturday afternoon. Recovery crews had been racing to recover the bodies before a winter storm was expected to hit the ...