Rescue teams find bodies of tourists who died in Iceland plane crash
Four tourists from the US, Netherlands and Belgium are killed after their Cessna plane crashed into a lake in Iceland during sightseeing trip
- Four tourists’ bodies were found after yesterday’s Cessna 172 crash in Iceland
- Rescue teams found dead victims of the plane crash who were out sightseeing
- The plane was discovered in Lake Thingvallavatn, Iceland’s second-largest
Four tourists from the United States, the Netherlands and Belgium have been killed during a sightseeing trip in Iceland after their small plane crashed into a lake.
The Cessna 172 was discovered in Lake Thingvallavatn, Iceland’s second-largest, at around 11pm local time yesterday, the Icelandic Coast Guard said in a statement.
The aircraft was found in a portion of the lake about 30 miles (50 kilometres) east of Reykjavik.
The Cessna 172 plane took off from the domestic airport in Iceland’s capital, Reykjavik, on Thursday, for a scheduled two-hour sightseeing tour.
It last made contact with aviation authorities about an hour later. It did not send a distress signal.
The pilot, Haraldur Diego, 49, was considered one of Iceland’s most prominent aviators and a pioneer of photography tours.
The Cessna 172 was discovered in Lake Thingvallavatn (pictured in a file photo) Iceland’s second-largest, at around 11pm local time yesterday, the Icelandic Coast Guard said
The Cessna 172 plane (pictured in a file photo) took off from the domestic airport in Iceland’s capital, Reykjavik, on Thursday, for a scheduled two-hour sightseeing tour
More than 1,000 members of Iceland´s Search and Rescue organization, along with boats, divers and two Icelandic Coast Guard helicopters, had combed the Thingvellir National Park area in harsh winter weather for the plane.
Yesterday Asgrimur Larus Asgrimsson, head of operations at the Icelandic Coast Guard, said that ‘mobile phone data has given us a reason to narrow the search area down to the Thingvellir area’.
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