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Costa Rica“Everything humanly possible done” – search for Schaller aircraft ended
Rainer Schaller’s business plane crashed into the sea on its way from Mexico to Costa Rica. His family was on board.
He crashed with his family off the coast of Costa Rica on October 21.
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On October 22, Costa Rican rescue workers discovered two bodies off the coast of Limón.
Coast Guard
The search for McFit founder Rainer Schaller’s private plane has been stopped.
The bodies of a child and a man have been found but have not yet been identified.
The plane was on Missing on October 21 while flying from Mexico to Costa Rica.
About a week and a half after that Small plane crash With the German entrepreneur Rainer Schaller on board, the authorities in Costa Rica finally ended the search for missing persons on Tuesday.
After “eleven days of continuous work”, the institutions involved stopped the search, since “no further evidence was found,” Costa Rica Deputy Minister of Public Safety Martín Arias said in a video intended for the press. “We have done everything humanly possible,” said Arias.
Two bodies found
Public Safety Minister Jorge Torres said authorities received the family of one of the victims on Tuesday and escorted them to the suspected crash site.
According to the Costa Rican authorities, the private plane that started in southern Mexico was on its way to the… Limon province airport crashedafter losing contact with her.
Schweizer was a pilot
Search crews later discovered the bodies of an adult and a child, whose identities have not yet been released, in the sea near the crash site.
After the crash, the authorities in the Central American country confirmed that 53-year-old Schaller, founder of the McFit gym chain, and relatives were on board the machine that crashed on Friday. Accordingly, in addition to Schaller and his 44-year-old partner, there was another 40-year-old German and two children and the 66-year-old pilot, a Swissan Bord.
Schaller founded the McFit fitness chain in the 1990s and had become a millionaire with the studios. Later he also organized the Loveparade techno party.
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