Obviously not looking good here, hope for the best.
Apparently their flight path was over land and water, and as is well known, much elevated terrain in the area.
Article doesn't state weather conditions at time of loss, but does say they are pretty bad now.
1 note of slight hope:
"Authorities said their last known contact with the pilot was when he told Anchorage Air Traffic Control that he intended to 'enter a holding pattern' as he waited for the runway to be cleared."
So at least they have an approximate search area by a major field to concentrate on, though I suppose they easily could have been out 20 miles or so.
A flight with 10 people on board has vanished over Alaska, sparking a frantic search.
The Bering Air plane was reported 'overdue' when it failed to arrive in Nome about 4pm local time.
It was traveling from Unalakleet with nine passengers and one pilot on board.
Crews are frantically working to establish the plane's last coordinates, but weather conditions in the area are so poor that it has limited the ability to launch an air search.
A Coast Guard plane equipped with specialized equipment that allows it to 'locate objects and people through no visibility conditions' has arrived in the area to conduct a 'grid pattern search' over the water and shoreline.
'We are currently responding to a report of a missing Bering Air caravan,' the Nome Volunteer Fire Department said in a statement.
'We are doing an active ground search from Nome and from White Mountain. Due to weather and visibility, we are limited on air search at the current time.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... laska.html