The U.S. Coast Guard was continuing to search Monday for nine people, including a child, who were missing after a float plane crashed in the waters of Puget Sound northwest of Seattle.
The plane went down in Mutiny Bay off Whidbey Island, southeast of Vancouver Island and roughly 50 kilometres northwest of downtown Seattle. Whidbey Island is about halfway between Friday Harbor and Renton, a suburb south of Seattle. A woman who answered the phone early Monday said they're waiting to learn more and are devastated by the crash.
The National Transportation Safety Board said the plane was a de Havilland DHC-3 Otter, a single-engine propeller plane. The airport where the flight was headed Sunday is at the southern tip of Lake Washington, eight kilometres from Seattle. It’s located next to a Boeing plant and is best known for where new 737s first hit the sky.
A week later, a plane crashed in Alaska's Metlakatla Harbour during a commuter flight from Ketchikan. There were also fatalities in that crash.
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