Rescue teams in Costa Rica on Saturday found the bodies of two people who were among six traveling on a small plane that crashed in the Caribbean, officials said.
The aircraft was carrying five German passengers and a Swiss pilot on a flight from Mexico when it went down on Friday off the coast of Costa Rica.
“We have recovered some pieces of the plane that were washed in by the tide, and two bodies,” Costa Rican Public Security Minister Jorge Torres said.
Search and rescue operations began after the plane lost contact with a control tower in eastern Limon Province.
The search resumed on Saturday and wreckage from the plane was found in the water 28km from the Limon airport, the Costa Rican Ministry of Public Security said.
The five Germans on the plane were Rainer Schaller, the wealthy founder of a chain of gyms called McFit, his partner and their two children and another unnamed man, the German newspaper Bild reported.
The Costa Rican Ministry of Foreign Affairs gave no information on the identity of those killed in the crash.
Costa Rican press reports said the plane was a jet that left from the Mexican state of Chiapas.
The plane was a nine-seat Italian-made Piaggio P180 Avanti, known for its distinctive profile.
“Around six in the afternoon we received an alert about a flight coming from Mexico to the Limon airport, carrying five German passengers,” Torres said.
A search started immediately, but was called off temporarily due to bad weather.
Schaller was in the news in 2010 for his role as organizer of the Berlin Love Parade techno festival. A crush at the event killed 21 people and injured more than 500.
Additional reporting by AP
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