The Austrian-registered Cessna 551 was flying from Jerez in southern Spain with no specific destination.
A private Cessna 551 plane crashed off the coast of Latvia, where NATO fighters lifted it to intercept it. On Sunday, September 4, the Reuters report refers to the Swedish rescuers.
The Austrian-registered plane took off at 2:56 pm Moscow time from the city of Jerez in southern Spain and, according to FlightRadar24, did not indicate a specific destination. According to German Bild, the plane was supposed to land in Cologne. Four people were on board: a pilot, a man, a woman and their daughter.
After takeoff, the pilot reported problems with cabin pressure, and then stopped talking. During the flight, the plane turned twice, in Paris and Cologne, flew over the Baltic Sea, passing the Swedish island of Gotland. Around 19.30 he began to lose speed and altitude rapidly. At 19.45 the plane crashed on the coast of Latvia.
According to the Swedish Aftonbladet, fighter pilots in Spain, France, Germany and Denmark tried to contact the plane, but military pilots noticed the absence of a pilot in the cockpit of a private aircraft.
At the request of the Latvian Rescue Service, a Swedish Coast Guard helicopter was dispatched to the crash site.
It was previously reported that an An-12 plane crashed in Russia.
In the United States, only one child survived a plane crash
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Source: korrespondent
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