The US Coast Guard has joined a search for a small airplane with 10 people aboard that went missing along Alaska's west coast ...

As the community tried to process the deadly event, crews worked swiftly on unstable, slushy sea ice to recover the bodies and the wreckage with less than a day before bad weather was expected.

All 10 people on board a passenger plane that vanished while flying through the northwestern US state of Alaska are believed dead, authorities say.