A cessna with Austrian registration that had allegedly taken off with four people on board from the Spanish city of Jerez de la Frontera to the German airport of Cologne/Bonn crashed into the Baltic Sea today after flying erratically over much of Europe, 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 Peninsulaalready in France, contact with the apparatus was lost.
Two Spanish and French fighters they 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 his daughter, according to information from Bild ‘.
The connection with the plane was interrupted around 5:00 p.m. At least one Eurofighter fighter jet took off from the rostock air base to accompany the phantom Cessna and find out what was going on, but was also unable to obtain any information and diverted after the German island of Rügen, in the Baltic Seaadd the diary.
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A Danish F16 fighter was then tasked with escorting the phantom flight and pilots witnessed the plane go into a spin and crash off the Latvian coast of the Baltic Sea.
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The Swedish coastguard dispatched rescue planes, boats and a helicopter to the crash site.
“Unfortunately, we have to confirm that in the early afternoon a plane from Spain crossed German airspace and crashed in the Baltic Sea off Latvia,” the German Air Force reported, adding that several German Eurofighters had previously escorted the aircraft.