BREAKING: A search is underway 13 nautical miles south of Nantucket...

BREAKING: A search is underway 13 nautical miles south of Nantucket for a Gulfstream aircraft with six persons on board. The FAA reported losing contact with the aircraft early Saturday morning.

The Gulfstream G100 (tail #CGRJP) air ambulance was traveling from Bermuda to Boston.

Coast Guard Station Brant Point has its 47-foot motor life boat in the search area now, according to master chief John Lowell, along with numerous other Coast Guard assets including an MH-60 helicopter, one HC-144, one C-130, and a 154-foot cutter searching.

Updated story on what we know so far: nantucketcurrent.com/news/coast-gua…

Here’s the view from Surfside Beach where we could see Coast Guard aircraft and Station Brant Point’s motor lifeboat taking part in the search for the missing plane south of Nantucket:

New info: the missing plane declared an emergency before losing contact, according to the manager of Nantucket Memorial Airport

Nantucket Harbormaster staff and Nantucket Police are now searching the south shore of Nantucket.

This photo was taken in Madaket by Greg Creedon.

"We have an ATV and a truck doing shore line searches with NPD. We have a crew underway at Madaket...Our crews will respond to inshore incidents so the Coast Guard can focus their efforts off shore," Harbormaster Sheila Lucey tells the Current.

Air traffic control audio from the flight, via @thenewarea51