A Swedish coastguard plane has crashed into a canal in southern Sweden with four men on board. The body of one man has been recovered from the plane. Rescue services say there is little hope of finding any survivors.
The plane crashed into the Falsterbo Canal, outside Vellinge, 16 kilometres south of Malmö. Sweden’s air accident rescue service was alerted by emergency operator SOS Alarm, after a call from a witness at 1:27pm.
TV4 reported that the plane, a dual-engine Casa-212, was on a routine mission when it crashed on Thursday afternoon. Several boats were in the canal near to the site where the plane crashed, according to reports.
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October 26, 2006 at 4:08 pm