‘Several’ individuals are dead after an airplane crashed near an airport in Sweden.
The airplane, which brought 8 parachutists and a pilot, crashed at Orebro Airport at around 7.20pm on Thursday, regional reports state.
A fire broke out at the scene after it boiled down around 100 metres far from an airstrip.
Emergency services, consisting of 10 ambulances, raced to the scene and the blaze has actually now been snuffed out.
One individual has actually been hurried to medical facility with major injuries, Swedish paper Goteborgs-Posten reports.
Swedish authorities stated on their site. ‘It’s an extremely extreme mishap. Several individuals have actually passed away.’
Police spokesperson Lars Hedelin included that the force was ‘calling in all the staff we can get our hands on’.
The Sea and Air Rescue Centre has actually verified the airplane was a skydiving aircraft.
The disaster comes days after 28 individuals passed away when an airplane crashed while attempting to land in Russia’s far east.
The An-26 twin-engined propellor airplane was en path from the local capital Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to the town of Palana, in the remote Kamchatka peninsula, when it lost contact with air traffic control service.
It’s believed the airplane crashed into a sea cliff as it was preparing to land, amidst conditions of bad presence.
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