PublishedOctober 22, 2022, 5:45 PM
A small plane, in which five Germans were present, crashed on Friday in the Caribbean Sea off Costa Rica.
Two dead bodies have been found off Puerto Limon in eastern Costa Rica where a small plane with five Germans on board crashed in the Caribbean Sea, Public Security Minister Jorge Torres announced.
“We found parts and parts of the plane that the currents bring us (and) two bodies, that of a minor and part of an adult”, announced Jorge Torres to the television news Repretel, confirming that the plane disappeared was located.
Earlier, Deputy Minister Martin Arias had indicated that debris from the aircraft that left southern Mexico appeared to have been located “28 kilometers in front of Limon airport”. According to the German newspaper “Bild”, the occupants of the small plane were the founder of the McFit gyms, Rainer Schaller, his partner and their two children, as well as another man.
The tabloid claims to have collected its information from the spokesperson for the operator of the McFit rooms, the company RSG-Group GmbH. “At the moment, we don’t know more,” she told the newspaper. Contacted by AFP, the German Foreign Ministry gave no indication of the identity of the victims.
The private flight had departed from Mexico, before losing contact with the control tower in Costa Rica around 6:00 p.m. Friday (00:00 a.m. Saturday) at Limon where it was to land. According to the Costa Rican press, the aircraft took off from the state of Chiapas, in southern Mexico.
Searches, started immediately after the alert and then interrupted after a few hours by night and bad weather, had resumed at 05:00 a.m. local time (1:00 p.m. Swiss time) on Saturday, in particular with the help of the coastguards and planes. A command post involving Costa Rican Red Cross rescuers and firefighters has been set up at Limon airport, Costa Rican authorities say
