Just hours after finding 10 people dead in western Alaska from one of the deadliest plane crashes in the state in 25 years, authorities are racing to recover their remains and the wreckage of the small commuter plane from unstable sea ice before expected high winds and snow.

A crashed airplane with three dead people inside has been found in western Alaska during the search for a flight that went missing Thursday with 10 people aboard, the Coast Guard said Friday.The crashed plane was found around 34 miles southeast of Nome,

The U.S. Coast Guard in Alaska on Friday found the wreckage of a small plane that suddenly lost altitude on Thursday and went missing with 10 people on board, recovering three of the bodies.