McFit founder Schaller crashed off Costa Rica? Debris discovered | News

McFit founder Schaller’s plane crashed |

28 kilometers from the finish – nothing but rubble

Are these the first tracks?

When searching for the missing private plane belonging to McFit founder Rainer Schaller (53) off the coast of Costa Rica, the emergency services discovered several pieces of debris in the sea.

About 28 kilometers from the destination airport of Limón, parts of a fuselage, a bag and seats were sighted during a reconnaissance flight, the television station Teletica reported on Saturday, citing the Costa Rican Ministry of Public Security. There was initially no information about the passengers.

According to the news outlet Prensa Libre, the ministry’s deputy minister confirmed: “28 kilometers from Limón airport, remains were found in the sea that appear to come from this plane. So far no people have been spotted.”

The debris “apparently” came from the plane the Germans had been on.

“The plane disappeared from radar about 25 miles (approx. 40 km) before Limón airport. The plane was due to land at 6:58 p.m., we lost it at an altitude of 2,000 feet,” Civil Aviation Authority director Fernando Naranjo told Teletica.

The Piaggio P.180 Avanti business jet went missing on Friday evening (local time) on the flight from Mexico to Costa Rica.

The Ministry of Security announced that communication was lost when the machine approached Limón Airport over the sea. After the search was canceled due to bad weather conditions during the night, the emergency services resumed it on Saturday.

On board the 13-year-old machine, as a spokeswoman for the “McFit” operator RSG-Group GmbH confirmed: Schaller, his girlfriend Christiane Schikorsky and their children Aaron and Finja. According to BILD am SONNTAG information, a man named Marcus Kurreck is said to have also flown. And of course the pilot.