Alleged ghost flight
Private jet en route from Spain to Cologne crashes in the Baltic Sea
The accident pilot is said to have been a Cessna 551 – here is an archive photo
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A Cessna 551 is on its way from Spain to Cologne. But she does not arrive there: the private jet does not seem to have any pilots in the cockpit – later the alleged ghost flight crashes over the Baltic Sea. The background is still unclear.
A private jet of the type Cessna 551 is according to matching Swedish media reports crashed over the Baltic Sea. According to the media reports, the German machine was on its way from Spain to Cologne. As data from Flightradar24 show, the jet flew over Cologne and then on to Rügen and Bornholm in the direction of the Swedish island of Gotland.
A little later, the Cessna lost a lot of altitude. According to the newspaper “Dagen’s Nyheter” the sea and air rescue center announced shortly before 8 p.m. that the aircraft had disappeared from the radar. “Our helicopter from Visby is on its way to the place where we fear the plane crashed,” said Jonas Wahlstrom of the newspaper’s Sea and Air Rescue Center.
The newspaper “Aftonbladet” writes that a plane from the Swedish Coast Guard is circling over the crash site. They would have found oil stains and debris. “This plane crashed. The chance of finding survivors is minimal,” said Lars Antonsson of the Sea and Air Rescue Center.
Apparently no contact with pilots
According to information from “Dagens Nyheter”, air traffic control tried to contact the pilot when the machine passed Cologne Airport – but received no answer. German and Danish fighter jets were then sent into the air.
Wahlstrom told the TV station SVTthat there were four people on board. The German and Danish fighter pilots could not have made contact with the pilots. No contact could be made with the passengers either. According to the “Bild” newspaper In addition to a pilot, a man, a woman and a daughter were on board. According to previously unconfirmed “Bild” information, there should have been problems with the cabin pressure.
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