The mysterious flight path of a Cessna calls German and French Eurofighters into action. After take-off in Spain, contact with the pilot breaks off. The plane does not land in Cologne as planned, but flies hundreds of kilometers and crashes into the Baltic Sea. Four people are on board.
A private plane en route from Spain to Cologne flew over the Baltic Sea and crashed into the sea off the coast of Latvia. Previously, all contact with the plane was broken off. According to information from the “Bild” newspaper, the pilot, a man, a woman and their daughter were on board. As a spokesman for the Luftwaffe confirmed in the evening, alarm squads consisting of two Eurofighters rose in German airspace to get an idea of the unusual flight behavior. According to initial findings, the pilot may have lost consciousness.
"Bild" also reported that the machine reported pressure problems in the cabin after taking off in Jerez, southern Spain. Accordingly, contact with the ground broke off just behind the Iberian Peninsula. A squad of the French army took over in the airspace over France, before a squad from Neuburg an der Donau and later from Rostock-Laage took off in German airspace.
As the Danish newspaper "Dagens Nyheter" reported, when the Cessna 551 aircraft flew over the island of Rügen, it entered Swedish airspace, where it flew south of Gotland and further towards the Gulf of Riga and then crashed into the sea . The Swedish Coast Guard sent rescue planes, boats and a helicopter to the crash site.
