Entrepreneur Rainer Schaller, his wife and two children were on board the crashed plane off Puerto Limon in the east of the country.
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“, he declared to the television news Repretel, confirming that the missing plane was located.
Earlier, Deputy Minister Martin Arias had indicated that debris from the aircraft that had departed from southern Mexico appeared to have been located “28 kilometers from 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. “For the moment, we do not know moreshe 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, 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.
Research, immediately started after the alert and then interrupted after a few hours by night and bad weather, had resumed at 5:00 a.m. local time, on Saturday, in particular with the help of the coast guard and planes.
A command post involving Costa Rican Red Cross rescue workers and firefighters has been set up at Limon airport, according to Costa Rican authorities