(Reuters) – Authorities in Iceland have discovered a small airplane on the backside of a lake two days after the plane went lacking with three vacationers and a pilot on board, police mentioned on Saturday.
The three vacationers on the Cessna 172N airplane – who departed for a sightseeing tour on Thursday – had been from Belgium, the Netherlands and america, Iceland’s Morgunbladid newspaper reported.
Iceland’s coastguard mentioned in an announcement the airplane crashed into Lake Thingvallavatn some 40 km (25 miles) east of the capital, Reykjavik, and was positioned with the assistance of an unmanned submarine.
The airplane has not been pulled to the floor and no our bodies have but been recovered.
The Dutch Overseas Ministry advised Reuters it had been knowledgeable by the airline firm {that a} 27-year-old Dutch man dwelling in Belgium was on the airplane when it disappeared.
Coastguard officers couldn’t instantly verify the nationalities of the 2 different lacking passengers.
(Reporting by Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen in Copenhagen and Stephanie van den Berg in Amsterdam; Enhancing by Helen Popper)
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