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 crashed over the Baltic Sea on Sunday, according to the corresponding Swedish. 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, the sea and air rescue center announced shortly before 8 p.m. that the plane had disappeared from radar. “Our helicopter from Visby is on its way to where we fear the plane crashed,” said Jonas Wahlstrom of the newspaper’s Sea and Air Rescue Center.
The newspaper writes that a Swedish coastguard plane 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.
Wahlström told the TV station that 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.
The Danish military confirmed in the evening that they tried unsuccessfully to contact the Cessna before it entered Swedish airspace.
As a spokesman for the Air Force confirmed to the German Press Agency on Sunday 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.
According to the information, a man, a woman and a daughter were on board in addition to a pilot. According to previously unconfirmed “Bild” information, there should have been problems with the cabin pressure. 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.
This article has been updated several times.
Source: Stern
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