Debris found near Nantucket: the Coast Guard's update on the missing medical jet

WBZ's weekend report on the plane that left Bermuda for Boston with six people aboard reached more viewers in half a day than the station's videos usually reach in a full one.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 64,704 views a day, 22 times a normal first day on this channel (3,012).

Coast Guard gives update on missing plane near Nantucket

The U.S. Coast Guard has found debris from the medical jet that disappeared near Nantucket early Saturday with six people on board. The plane had been flying from Bermuda to Boston, and as we reported here, news of its disappearance had already traveled far beyond CBS Boston's usual audience.

The Coast Guard's update, posted Sunday under the WBZ News Weekends banner, passed 43,000 views in its first twelve hours. A new video on the channel usually ends its whole first day at around 3,000. It is not yet clear what brought the plane down.

The people who stopped to comment mostly left words for the families of those aboard. Several also said the update's audio was hard to hear, and a few asked where exactly the debris had turned up.

It was a heavy weekend on the water for the station. The same Sunday, WBZ also reported that the Coast Guard had suspended its search for a boater who went missing after a boat crashed into rocks off Manchester-by-the-Sea.

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More from CBS BostonVideo taking off 37x its usual first dayA medical plane from Bermuda to Boston goes missing near NantucketCBS Boston's short on the Coast Guard search drew a comment section far busier than usual, full of prayers and questions about the route.Channel: CBS Boston · Story of October 4, 2026

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The numbers

The update's first hours stand far apart from how the channel's new videos usually begin.

the video's first day

usual first day here

3,012

this video

64,704

subscribers

375,000

▲ 1,000 in the last 7 days

total views

418,887,904

views per day

422,690

typical day: 478,939

the video

views

43,344

likes

142

comments

33

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 5, 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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