Rainer Schaller, founder of the fitness chain McFit. The entrepreneur was on board the private plane that crashed off the coast of Costa Rica.
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In the eleven days after the private plane crashed, only the bodies of a man and a child could be recovered. The search for the other victims is now abandoned. The cause of the accident is still unclear.
EEleven days after the crash of German entrepreneur Rainer Schaller’s private plane off the coast of Costa Rica, the search operation has finally been stopped. No further evidence was found, said Costa Rican Coast Guard Director Martín Arias on Tuesday (local time). Four of the six people who were on board are still missing.
“We’ve done everything humanly possible,” Arias said. So far, only the bodies of a child and a man have been found. It was not initially disclosed who the dead were. According to Security Minister Jorge Torres, relatives of one of the victims visited the scene of the accident on Tuesday.
McFit founder Schaller, his partner, the two children, another German and the Swiss pilot were on board the private plane at the time of the crash on October 21. The plane came from Mexico and crashed into the sea near the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica. The causes of the crash remained unclear.
