A private jet piloted by a wealthy German businessman flew across Europe after it apparently became incapacitated before crashing into the Baltic Sea, killing him and three others on board.
Yesterday afternoon, thousands of people watched the online tracking of the Austrian-registered Cessna Citation as it flew for two hours over France and Germany as a “ghost plane”, while NATO interceptors and air controllers they were trying to get in touch with him.
Karl-Peter Griesemann, 72, is believed to have succumbed to hypoxia following a pressurization failure in the Cessna Citation after taking off from Jerez in Spain with his wife Juliane, 68, their daughter Lisa , 26, and Lisa’s 27-year-old. male friend The pilot reported a problem with the pressurization of the plane at altitude and it appeared he had it