A plane crashed on Tuesday in the Zwarte Meer, on the border of the provinces of Flevoland and Overijssel. This is confirmed by the Flevoland Security Region. There is a maximum of two people on the plane. Dive teams from the area have been deployed to search for them and a police helicopter flies over the lake.
“All care now goes to saving the victims,” says a spokesperson for the fire brigade in Flevoland. He cannot say how long the search has been going on, and until when it will continue. “When we got there, we immediately went out on the water.”
It concerns a training aircraft of the Self Flying flying school in Lelystad that trains pilots for Transavia, a spokesperson for that airline confirms. On plane tracker radar box can be seen that one of their two Blackshape Gabriél planes took off from Lelystad Airport at 8:43 am and disappeared from the radar just after 9 am. The flight school could not be reached for comment on Tuesday afternoon.
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