NEW YORK, Oct. 4 (Xinhua) -- Search for the six people on board an air ambulance and the black box continues, the U.S. Coast Guard said on Sunday.

"Our priority is to find the six personnel on that aircraft," Commander of the U.S. Coast Guard's northeast district Matt Lake told reporters.

The next step in the search will be looking for the jet's black box, which might prove difficult given how "extensive" the debris field is.

"In the debris we've identified at this point, there is no indication that we found a black box," he said.

Officials did not provide the exact size of the debris field. But the size and amount of debris has made it "very difficult to get into the details of what's there," said Kastriot Kastrati, search and rescue mission coordinator for the U.S. Coast Guard's northeast district.

The debris field was roughly 32 kilometers off the coast of Nantucket, Lake said. The water in the area is between 24 and 28 meters deep.

Debris from the Gulfstream G100 twinjet has been found floating in the ocean Saturday evening. The plane carrying six people was en route from Bermuda's L.F. Wade International Airport to Boston Logan International Airport when it suddenly went dark Saturday on Federal Aviation Administration radar shortly before its scheduled 1:25 a.m. landing. ■

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