No sign of survivors after ‘ghost plane’ crashes in Baltic

BERLIN (AP) — Authorities in Latvia say a search and rescue operation has so far found no sign of survivors from a small plane that crashed in the Baltic Sea. Air traffic controllers lost contact with the private plane, carrying four people, shortly after it took off from the Spanish city of Jerez on Sunday afternoon. German tabloid Bild reported that several European countries scrambled fighter jets as the plane made its way across the continent but were unable to see or contact anyone in the cockpit. The Cologne-based dailies Express and Koelner Stadt-Anzeiger reported that the Cessna Citation 551 jet, was en route to the western city with a prominent local businessman, his wife, daughter and her boyfriend on board.