A Cessna light-engine airplane with six passengers crashed in Costa Rica


A Cessna 206 light-engine airplane crashed in Costa Rica near the capital San Jose. There were six people on board. About it on Monday, November 25, reported the publication La Nación.
The plane disappeared from radar at about 21:30 Moscow time. According to the deputy head of the Civil Aviation Service of the Republic, Luis Miranda, the plane was heading to the airport named after Tobias Bolaños. Tobias Bolaños in San Jose, but the air harbor was closed due to poor visibility.
Search planes were only able to locate the fuselage wreckage in the jungle at about 2,100 meters above sea level. A team of rescuers is working at the site of the plane crash.
Earlier in the day, a DHL airplane crashed in Lithuania. It fell near a two-story apartment building at 05:31 (06:31 Moscow time) in Vilnius. It was specified that there were four people on board - two pilots and two employees of DHL.
Later it became known that the cause of the crash is being investigated as "caused by technical problems". Then the head of the National Crisis Management Center (NCMC) Vilmantas Vitkauskas said that one crew member was found dead, two were rescued and taken to hospital.
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