Recovery crews worked amid freezing temperatures and slushy sea ice Friday to recover the remaining victims aboard a regional airline flight that crashed off the coast of western Alaska.

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.

The United States Coast Guard in Alaska has located an aircraft that "matches the description" of the missing Bering Air flight - and say all 10 people on board died. The aircraft went missing on Thursday and the plane "matching" its description was found approximately 34 miles southeast of Nome,