Five Germans were on a private plane en route from Mexico to the airport in Limón province (Costa Rica). At 6 p.m. local time (Saturday, 2 a.m. Central European Summer Time), radio contact broke off after the Piaggio P.180 machine had lost thousands of meters in altitude.
McFit founder and Loveparade organizer missing
According to the Costa Rican TV broadcaster Teletica and citing passenger lists, entrepreneur Rainer Schaller (53), founder of the fitness chain McFit and former head of the Love Parade, was on board with his partner, their two children and another man.
Machine parts found: Do the debris in the sea belong to Schaller’s plane?
In the meantime, debris has been discovered in the sea around 28 kilometers from the airport, off the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica. It is still unclear whether these belong to the private machine.
Nina Queer: A good friend of Rainer Schaller speaks in the AZ
“A miracle has to happen. That’s what we hope for,” says Nina Queer, moved in the AZ interview. Rainer Schaller has known the Berlin cult drag queen for over a decade. “This is terrible news for me and even worse news for Rainer’s family and employees. Only two weeks ago we celebrated together so merrily. Rainer is a generous, upstanding person with a lot of warmth and humor. He could save the souls of the read people.”
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Nina Queer moderated in Schaller’s Berlin club “the reed” and was also active as a DJane. “We loved each other from the first moment and got along well. We got along well from the start. Rainer was a sentimentalist, so it sometimes happened that you spontaneously got a kiss.”
Nina Queer hopes for a miracle
Nina Queer prays to God that everything will turn out well: “I hope that everything was a crazy and harmless kidnapping, that it’s ‘only’ about a lot of money and that everyone will come back safely.”
Rainer Schaller founded McFit GmbH in 1996 and opened the first fitness studio in Würzburg in 1997. Because of the accident at the Love Parade with 21 dead and hundreds injured in Duisburg, he made the headlines as organizer in 2010. In court he said: “I accept the moral responsibility.”
