Two bodies were found off Puerto Limón, in eastern Costa Rica, where a small plane with five Germans on board crashed into the Caribbean Sea, Public Security Minister Jorge Torres announced.
“We have found parts and parts of the plane that the currents bring us (and) two bodies, that of a minor and part of an adult,” Jorge Torres announced to the Repretel television newscast, confirming that the missing plane was located.
Hours earlier, Vice Minister Martín Arias had indicated that the remains of the aircraft that left southern Mexico seemed to have been located “28 kilometers in front of the Limón airport.”
Five Germans on board
According to the German newspaper ImageThe occupants of the plane were the founder of 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 lounges, the company RSG-Group GmbH. “At the moment, we don’t know more,” he told the newspaper.
When contacted, the German Foreign Office gave no indication of the identity of the victims.
From Mexico
The private flight had departed from Mexico, before losing contact with the control tower in Costa Rica on Friday afternoon in Limón, where it was due to land. According to the Costa Rican press, the aircraft took off from the state of Chiapas, in southern Mexico.
The investigation, launched immediately after the alert and then interrupted after a few hours at night and bad weather, had been resumed at 5:00 local time (1:00 p.m. Paris time) on Saturday, in particular with the help of the coastguard and airplanes.
A command post with rescuers and firefighters from the Costa Rican Red Cross was installed at the Limón airport, according to Costa Rican authorities
Source: BFM TV
