The search was suspended due to bad weather and nightfall, so it will continue on Saturday morning.
A private plane in which five Germans who departed from Mexico traveled He disappeared this friday at Costa Rican Caribbeanaccording to the Costa Rican Minister of Public Security, Jorge Torres.
“We want to communicate that we have received an alert [de desaparición] on an aircraft, a private flight from Mexico to the airport in the eastern province of Limón. this aircraft was traveling with five passengers of German nationalityTorres reported in a video released by the ministry in charge.
And completed: “The aircraft lost communication with the control tower. near the Barra de Parismina in the Costa Rican Caribbean and we immediately activated the internal protocol to track the plane”.
According to the first information, the aircraft stopped being captured by the radar at 6:00 p.m. (local time).
After a few hours, the search was called off due to overnight and “bad weather” and will resume on Saturday. The National Coast Guard Service and the Air Surveillance Service, among other institutions, participate in the aircraft tracking operation.
The plane that disappeared in Chubut with a Brazilian doctor, businessman and lawyer
The well-known real estate businessman was traveling on the plane that disappeared on April 11 in the middle of a storm south of Chubut. Antonio Carlos de Castro Ramosthe gynecologist Jean Carlo Nercolini and the lawyer Mario Enrique Da SilvaPinhoall from the southern region of Brazil.
Castro Ramos, 67, is the owner and driver of the plane, while Nercolini, 61, and Da Silva Pinho, 64, are aeronautical enthusiasts and friends of the pilot.
The professions of the crew members was broadcast by the news portals of Florianopolis, the capital of Santa Catarina, a state in southern Brazil from which they originate.
Five days later, the Argentine Air Navigation Company (EANA SE) reported in a statement that it stopped looking for the single-engine plane.
“After intense searches by land, air and sea, which began last Wednesday, April 6, the large-scale search for the aircraft registration PP-ZRT is suspended,” they detailed in the tweet that accompanied the informative text.
“The national coordination of the search and rescue operation is suspended,” they wrote, and they said that the operation coordinated by the EANA SE “had the deployment of the necessary forces for the search by sky, sea and land.”
With information from AFP.