Authorities are working to recover the wreckage of a plane crash in western Alaska that killed 10 people while investigators are trying to determine what caused the small commuter aircraft to go down in the icy Bering Sea.

Crews are still working to recover the bodies of 10 people killed in a plane crash in Alaska, officials have said. Jennifer Homendy, chair of the National Transportation Safety Board, said the investigation into the crash was in its "early stages" and it was too soon to tell what caused it.

Three people were found inside the aircraft and "reported to be deceased," the U.S. Coast Guard in Alaska said on X. The remaining seven people were also believed to be inside but were "currently inaccessible due to the condition of the plane,

There were no survivors aboard the Cessna Caravan carrying 10 people that crashed Thursday afternoon on a flight from Unalakleet to Nome in western Alaska, the U.S. Coast Guard said Friday. Coast Guard rescuers found the missing plane on the Norton Sound sea ice roughly 34 miles southeast of Nome,