Four of the six people who were on board the private plane belonging to entrepreneur Rainer Schaller are still missing.
Eleven days after the crash of German businessman Rainer Schaller’s private plane off the coast of Costa Rica, the search operation has finally been halted. No further evidence was found, said Costa Rican Coast Guard Director Martín Arias on Tuesday (local time). Four of the six people who were on board are still missing.
“We’ve done everything humanly possible,” Arias said. So far, only the bodies of a child and a man have been found. It was not initially disclosed who the dead were. According to Security Minister Jorge Torres, relatives of one of the victims visited the scene of the accident on Tuesday.
McFit founder Schaller, his partner, the two children, another German and the Swiss pilot were on board the private plane at the time of the crash on October 21. The plane came from Mexico and crashed into the sea near the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica. The causes of the crash remain unclear.
The search was initially expanded, but now the search for the whereabouts of the businessman Schaller and the other passengers is no longer being sought.
(Photo: Ministry of Security Costa Rica/Reuters)