HELSINKI — Four passengers aboard a private jet touring from Spain to Germany had been feared dead after the airplane crashed into the Baltic Sea off Latvia’s coast on Sunday, in accordance with Swedish and German media reviews.
The Cessna Quotation 551 jet, which had taken off from the Spanish metropolis of Jerez in the afternoon, disappeared from radar whereas flying over the Baltic Sea northwest of the Latvian port metropolis of Ventspils, Swedish information company TT reported.
The plane, registered in Austria, was en path to Cologne, Germany. German media stated the passengers had been a household of three — a person, a girl and their daughter — in addition to the pilot.
German newspaper Bild stated that the airplane had reported shortly after takeoff that there was an issue with pressurization in the cabin. However authorities misplaced radio contact with the plane quickly after, and Spanish and French fighter jets had been dispatched to intercept the airplane.
