STOCKHOLM, July 9 (NNN-AGENCIES) — All nine people onboard were found dead in the crash of an airplane outside Orebro, Sweden, on Thursday, Swedish police said.
The small aircraft used for skydiving crashed near an airport outside Orebro, about 160 kilometres west of Stockholm, police and rescue services said.
They located the aircraft alongside one of the runways, Carl-Johan Linde, spokesman for the Swedish Maritime Authority which oversees the Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre (JRCC), said.
As far as they could tell, the accident happened as the plane was taking off, he added. Nine people were reported to be on board: eight skydivers and the pilot.
In an earlier briefing, Lars Hedelin, spokesman for the Bergslagen region police referred to “multiple” deaths. While he would not give a specific figure, he did say that one person had been taken to hospital with serious injuries.
In 2019, nine people were killed when a plane carrying skydivers crashed outside the city of Umea, northeast Sweden. — NNN-AGENCIES
