The four occupants of the private jet are of German nationality and three of them, from the same family, had temporary residence in Cádiz
Marine and air resources from Sweden and Latvia participate in the search for the wreckage of the plane
The four occupants of the private jet that has crashed in the Baltic Sea are of German nationality, three of them from the same family with temporary residence in Zahara de los Atunes (Cádiz).
a german businessman related to the aeronautical sector was traveling on the private flight that left this Sunday afternoon from the airport of the Spanish city of Jerez de la Frontera (Cádiz), sources of the investigation have informed EFE.
A private jet registered in Austria has crashed in the Baltic Sea after having flown erratically and without radio about 3,500 kilometers from Jerez with four people on board and bound for the German airport of Cologne/Bonn, the media reported.
According to the newspaper ‘Bild’, it is a Cessna with the flight number OE-FGR who reported pressure problems in the cabin after takeoff. Shortly after crossing the Iberian Peninsula, already in France, she lost contact with the device.
Two Spanish and French fighters took off to check the situation of the private plane, but the pilots could not distinguish any person neither in the cabin nor in the plane. On board, however, were the pilot, a woman, a man and their daughter, according to information from ‘Bild’.
The connection with the plane was interrupted around 5:00 p.m. (3:00 p.m. GMT). At least one Eurofighter fighter jet took off from the Rostock air base to accompany the “ghost” Cessna and find out what was going on, but was also unable to obtain information and later diverted from the German island of Rügen in the Baltic Sea, adds the daily.
Next, a Danish F16 fighter was responsible for escorting the “ghost flight” and the pilots witnessed how the plane entered a spin and crashed off the Latvian coast of the Baltic Sea. The Swedish coastguard dispatched rescue planes, boats and a helicopter to the crash site.
Air and sea forces from Sweden and Latvia are involved in the search for the wreckage of the plane. The Austrian agency APA quotes a Swedish aviation safety expert who considers it possible that the occupants of the plane were rendered unconscious by the lack of oxygen in the cabin due to a leak.
“Unfortunately, we have to confirm that in the early afternoon a plane from Spain crossed German airspace and crashed into the Baltic Sea off Latvia“, reported the German Air Force, adding that several German Eurofighters had previously escorted the device.