Czech passenger airplane crashes in Germany

A small passenger airplane en route from Prague to the Swedish town of Karstad crashed in Germany on Sunday night. The two pilots on board the Cessna Citation 550 plane were both killed in the crash. The website novinky.cz reported that its owner, former race driver and entrepreneur Antonín Charouz, was not on board. According to the website, he had rented the plane out to Time Air, a company that provides air taxi services. The plane entered German territory around 8 p.m on Sunday night, but the tower never established communication with the pilot and the plane disappeared from the radar briefly after. It crashed in a mountainous part of the German Saxony region which is difficult to access. Police and ambulances set off around midnight but didn’t get to the site of the accident until the early morning hours.