Private jet 'with four people on board' crashes into Baltic Sea as rescue mission launched
The Cessna 551, which was flying from Jerez in southern Spain, crashed off the coast of Latvia on Sunday evening, Sweden's rescue service said.The private jet turned twice, at Paris and Cologne, before heading straight out over the Baltic and rapidly losing speed and altitude.
"We've learned that the plane has crashed north-west of the town of Ventspils in Latvia," a spokesperson for Sweden's rescue service said. "It has disappeared from the radar." According to German Bild, a pilot, a woman, a man and their daughter were all flying when the plane came down in mysterious circumstances during its erratic flight.
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