The search in northwest Alaska intensified Friday for a plane that disappeared with 10 people on board, officials there say. Bering Air Flight 445 — a Cessna 208B Grand Caravan — was carrying nine passengers and a pilot from Unalakleet to Nome when it went missing on Thursday afternoon,

The a single-engine turboprop, was heading from Unalakleet to Nome on Thursday afternoon with nine passengers and a pilot.

Rescuers in Alaska continued to scour the Seward Peninsula on Friday, desperately searching for a small plane carrying 10 people that did not arrive in Nome as scheduled, authorities said. The Bering Air Caravan flight, from Unalakleet to Nome, was reported overdue to Alaska State Troopers at 4 p.m. local time, the law enforcement agency said.