Cessna 551

A private Cessna plane crashed off the coast of Latvia on Sunday evening, Sweden's rescue service said, after NATO scrambled jets to follow its erratic ...

The website showed a Swedish search and rescue helicopter and airplane at the site as well. Latvia said it had sent ships to the scene. "It has disappeared from the radar."

4 hours and 54 minutes after departure from Jerez, the private jet crashed into the Baltic Sea, near Latvia. Search-and-rescue teams are underway to the crash ...

The aircraft carried a total of four passengers: one pilot and three passengers. Air traffic control tried to reach the pilot but in vain. The aircraft, however, didn’t reach the German airport but continued towards the Baltic Sea.

Nato scrambled jets to follow the aircraft on its erratic flight across Europe towards Latvia.

"Air traffic controllers were unable to communicate with the aircraft's crew," it said, adding that the Cessna 551 was registered in Austria - but the owner was in Spain. "The aircraft was flying from Spain to Cologne, but during the flight the aircraft changed its flight route," the Latvian Civil Aviation Authority said in a statement. Officials say the plane - believed to have had four people on board - had been due to land in Cologne, Germany, but instead headed out into the Baltic.

This is still a developing story. It involves a Cessna Citation 551, with Austrian registration OE-FGR. The aircraft first flew 42 years ago and appears to ...

[and saw nobody](https://news.upday.com/sv/privatjet-pa-vag-att-storta-utanfor-gotland/) in the cockpit. Swedish rescue services have dispatched a helicopter and a Dash-8 rescue aircraft, that appeared to have found remnants of the plane. However, if the reports about fighter pilots seeing gesticulating passengers are correct, the crash of this private jet in the Baltic is different. The private jet remained at FL360, at what appears to be a constant magnetic track, heading for the Baltic Sea. It appears that the private jet crashed in the Baltic, approximately 14 nautical miles from the Latvian coast. According to their flight plan, the crew of this private jet would not have flown anywhere near the Baltic.

NATO jets intercept an Austrian-registered aircraft which took off from southern Spain and flew near Paris and Cologne before crashing into the Baltic Sea.

A Lithuanian air force spokesperson said that NATO fighter aircraft from the Baltic Air Police mission in Amari airfield in Estonia had earlier taken off to follow the plane. A Lithuanian air force search and rescue helicopter was dispatched to the crash site at neighbouring Latvia's request, a Lithuanian air force spokesperson said. - NATO fighter aircraft from the Baltic Air Police mission in Estonia had taken off to follow the plane

Karl-Peter Griesemann's company confirms he and three others were onboard Cessna 551 that crashed near Latvia.

“I can confirm that it was the private jet of our owner, Karl-Peter Griesemann,” said a spokesperson for Quick Air, an air charter company based in Cologne. It alerted controllers in France, and two warplanes were sent up to monitor the jet. Griesemann is a prominent figure in Cologne, the largest city in western

A privately owned Cessna 551 crashed into the Baltic Sea yesterday evening after flying from Jerez, Spain. The aircraft was supposed to land in Cologne, ...

He was a driving force of the famous Cologne Carnival. The Latvian maritime search and rescue service (MRCC) told the BBC that it believes it found three parts of the plane. Latvian naval ships were then sent, and a coastguard vessel arrived at the crash site, along with a Latvian border guards helicopter. [Cessna](https://simpleflying.com/tag/cessna/) has long been a general aviation powerhouse, producing small aircraft for business and private use for nearly a century. [Spain](https://simpleflying.com/tag/spain/). A fighter plane from the NATO Baltic Air Police mission in Estonia's Amari Air Base was utilized to follow the aircraft.