A medical plane from Bermuda to Boston goes missing near Nantucket

CBS Boston's short on the Coast Guard search drew a comment section far busier than usual, full of prayers and questions about the route.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 93,294 views a day, 37 times a normal first day on this channel (2,526).

Coast Guard searches for missing plane off the coast of Nantucket

The U.S. Coast Guard is searching for a medical plane that was flying from Bermuda to Boston and went missing near Nantucket on Saturday morning. CBS Boston, the YouTube home of WBZ-TV News, posted a short on the search as part of its weekend coverage. Within twelve hours it had passed 60,000 views. A short on this channel usually ends its whole first day at around 2,500.

By Sunday the station had a longer report. In it, WBZ's Paul Burton describes the aircraft as a medical transport jet that vanished early Saturday with six people on board, and the Coast Guard's search as one that has moved out over the ocean. That follow-up had only just gone up.

The comments under the first short came in at an unusual pace for this channel: around forty in half a day, where its shorts typically collect two in a full one. Many of them are prayers for the people on board. Others ask questions: how long a trip it is from Bermuda to Boston, and whether air traffic control should be able to narrow down where the plane was last tracked. A few viewers bring up the Bermuda Triangle.

It was a weekend when much of the station's news came from the water. Another WBZ report covered a 30-foot boat that hit rocks near Singing Beach in Manchester-by-the-Sea on Saturday night, leaving one man dead and another missing.

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The numbers

The figures below show how far this short ran ahead of the channel's usual first day, in views and in comments.

the video's first day

usual first day here

2,526

this video

93,294

subscribers

375,000

▲ 1,000 in the last 7 days

total views

418,465,344

views per day

202,833

typical day: 509,617

the video

views

62,738

likes

126

comments

40

days online

1

compared with similar channels (subscribers)

WCCO - CBS Minnesota

420,000

FOX 13 Seattle

402,000

KTVU FOX 2 San Francisco

388,000

WSB-TV

388,000

CP24

379,000

CBS Boston

375,000

As of October 4, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.

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