Small plane crashes in Croatia mountains with 3 Dutch people on board
Croatian media reported that a small sport plane carrying Dutch nationals crashed on Saturday afternoon. According to Croatian news agency HINA, three Dutch people were on board the aircraft which went down on Mount Kapeli in the Lika-Senj province. The plane was in transit from the Slovenian city of Maribor to Pula, a city in Croatia.
The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs has not yet been able to verify if Dutch nationals were among the passengers on the small plane that crashed.
According to the Croatian mountain rescue service HGSS, the Cirrus SR20 G2 airplane disappeared from the radar around 12:30 a.m. A team of over 120 people, along with a drone and a helicopter, were deployed to search the forested area for remnants of the plane. The wreckage was finally located a little after 7:15 p.m. on Saturday evening.
No official announcements have been made yet concerning casualties. The search for victims will resume on Sunday morning, as emergency services are able to conduct a more effective search in daylight, as reported by the news agency HINA.
The cause of the crash remains uncertain. As the news agency noted, dense fog that afternoon could have resulted in challenging visibility conditions.
Reporting by ANP
