A Piaggio P.180 Avanti business jet went missing on a flight from Mexico to Costa Rica on Friday evening. On board: Mcfit founder Schaller and his family. Task forces now discover several pieces of debris in the sea.
When searching for a missing private plane with five German passengers off the coast of Costa Rica, the emergency services discovered several pieces of debris in the sea. About 28 kilometers from Limón airport, parts of a fuselage, seats and a bag were sighted during a reconnaissance flight, reported the television station Teletica, citing the Ministry of Public Security of the Central American country. There was initially no information about the passengers.
According to information from “Bild am Sonntag”, McFit founder Rainer Schaller, his girlfriend Christiane Schikorsky and their two children and another man were on board. At the newspaper’s request, a spokeswoman for the McFit operator RSG Group confirmed that Schaller, his partner and their children were in the machine. However, nothing more is known at the moment.
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.