STOCKHOLM – All nine people have died onboard an airplane carrying skydivers that crashed in Sweden, police said.
The plane was carrying eight skydivers and a pilot when it crashed close to the runway at Orebro airport, about 160 kilometers west of this city, on Thursday.
“It’s a very severe accident,” Swedish police said on their website. “Everyone on board the crashed plane has died.”
The small propeller plane, a DHC-2 Beaver, was rented by a local skydiving club for a summer event, local media reported.
In a similar incident in 2019, nine people died when a plane carrying them for a parachute jump crashed after taking off. The investigation showed the plane had been improperly loaded.(BBC)
