A search for a missing plane carrying 10 people is under way in Alaska. The Bering Air flight left Unalakleet at 2.38pm on Thursday but contact was lost less than an hour later, the firm's operations director David Olson said.

Authorities are frantically searching for an airplane carrying 10 people that went missing on its way to Nome, Alaska, according to officials. A Bering Air flight from Unalakleet to Nome failed to land as scheduled at 4 p.