WORLD NEWS: Private jet crashes in Baltic Sea near Latvia as rescue mission launched
A private Jet crashed into the Baltic Sea near Latvia on Sunday with four passengers on board, according to officials. The private Cessna plane is thought to have crashed just off the coast of Latvia with rescue planes and boats sent to the site of the crash by the Swedish Maritime Administration.
The flight path indicated that the aircraft turned twice, at Paris and Cologne, before hovering over the Baltic, passing near the Swedish island of Gotland. Shortly after 5.30pm, it was listed on the tracker as losing speed and altitude.A rescue effort is underway as the Swedish Coast Guards confirmed they have found a wreckage of the Cessna 551 aircraft, the Mirror reports. According to German Bild, a pilot, a woman, a man and their daughter were all flying when the plane came down.
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