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Plane carrying five Germans goes missing off Costa Rica

Official says aircraft lost communication with control tower near La Barra de Parismina

Updated 3 years ago · Published on 22 Oct 2022 4:00PM

Plane carrying five Germans goes missing off Costa Rica
Public Security Minister Jorge Torres says the internal protocol to locate the plane was immediately activated after it disappeared at 6.00pm yesterday, but after a few hours, the search was suspended due to nightfall and bad weather, and will resume today – Unsplash pic, October 22, 2022

SAN JOSÉ – A small plane from Mexico with five German nationals on board disappeared off Costa Rica yesterday, Public Security Minister Jorge Torres announced.

“We have received an alert concerning a plane, a private flight from Mexico to the airport in the eastern province of Limon,” the minister said.

“This aircraft was carrying five passengers of German nationality,” Torres said in a video message released by his ministry. 

“The aircraft lost communication with the control tower near La Barra de Parismina in the Costa Rican Caribbean and we immediately activated the internal protocol to locate it,” the official said.

He added that the plane disappeared at 6.00pm.

After a few hours, the search was suspended due to nightfall and “bad weather”, and would resume today, the minister said. – AFP, October 22, 2022

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