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Last minute… Private jet departing from Spain crashed off Latvian coast

It has been reported that the Cessna Citation 551 type private jet, which took off from Spain, crashed off the coast of Latvia.

It was reported that the Cessna Citation 551 type private jet, which took off from the Jerez de la Frontera region of Spain to Cologne, Germany , crashed off the coast of Latvia. It was stated that after the pilot of the plane, which circled over the French capital Paris and the German city of Cologne, passed near Sweden’s Gotland Island and headed for the Baltic Sea, no response was received from the pilot, NATO warplanes took off to stop the plane.

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It was reported that the plane started to lose altitude rapidly and disappeared from the radar off the coast of Latvia, while NATO warplanes could not see anyone in the cockpit of the plane. It is believed that there were 4 people on board. “We learned that the plane crashed in the northwest (in the ocean) of the Latvian town of Ventspils,” the Swedish Rescue Service spokesperson said in a statement.

NATO FIGHTING AIRPLANES LEAVED TO STOP THE JET

Latvian Navy Spokesperson Liva Veita announced that the Latvian ships were heading towards the point where the plane crashed. In a statement, the spokesperson of the Lithuanian Air Force stated that the warplanes taking off belonged to the NATO Baltic Air Police mission at Amari Airport in Estonia, and that at the request of Latvia, 1 helicopter of the Lithuanian Air Force was sent to the crash site for search and rescue. The spokesperson did not specify how many fighter jets took off. According to NATO, there are currently four Eurofighter jets of the German Air Force at the airbase.

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