POLICE officers investigate the wreckage of the plane. AP
COPENHAGEN: A small plane carrying skydivers crashed outside the Swedish city of Orebro, killing all nine people on board, police said on Friday.
The dead included the pilot and eight passengers, police said. The victims were members of a local skydiving club, according to Orebro County Governor Maria Larsson.
Spokesperson Carl-Johan Linde of the Swedish Maritime Administration, which oversees air traffic, told broadcaster SVT Thursday evening’s crash must have occurred in connection with the plane’s takeoff.
The plane burst into flames upon impact on what appeared to be an open field.
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