Four people on board: Private jet registered in Austria crashed over the Baltic Sea
A private jet registered in Austria crashed on Sunday with four people on board over the Baltic Sea off the coast of Latvia, according to media reports. die Cessna with registration OE-FGR, which is said to be registered to a German company, was actually on its way from Jerez in Spain to Cologne. According to the reports, radio contact broke off shortly after take-off after pressure problems were reported from the cabin. According to dpa, the pilot may have become unconscious.
“ghost machine”
From this point on, the plane was on the road as a “ghost machine”. Spanish, French and German fighter jets took off but could not make contact with the people in the machine. The Cessna changes direction twice in France and near Cologne, but continued to fly towards the Baltic Sea. At Rügen, a German fighter plane turned away and a Danish Air Force jet was taken over. A short time later, the private jet lost altitude rapidly and crashed into the sea. According to the Swedish news agency TT, the time of the crash was given as 7:45 p.m. The accident site is likely to be north-west of the Latvian city of Ventspils.
Little was initially known about the identity of the four people on board. It is said to be the pilot, a man, his daughter and a woman.
A Lithuanian military helicopter was used to search for the downed plane. According to media reports, Swedish emergency services and a civilian ferry were also involved in the search for the crash site.
Loss of pressure in cabin possible cause
The Swedish flight safety expert Hans Kjäll said that a leak may have led to a loss of pressure in the cabin. The occupants may actually have passed out from lack of oxygen. This can happen within 30 seconds, and it is also not unlikely that the aircraft occupants will not notice the loss of pressure.