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    A Cessna 551 Citation II(SP), OE-FGR, was destroyed when it crashed into the Baltic Sea while enroute from Spain to Germany.

    The aircraft departed Jerez-La Parra Airport (XRY) in Spain at 12:56 UTC, en route to Köln/Bonn Airport (CGN), Germany. The flight was conducted at FL360 and the aircraft made several course changes, the last one at 15:48 UTC on a heading to CGN. The aircraft continued at FL360 through German and Swedish airspace.

    The aircraft was not reachable by air traffic control authorities for some time. A Luftwaffe Panavia Tornado was dispatched from Rostock-Laage Air Base at 16:15 UTC to intercept the Cessna. The Tornado followed the Cessna until 16:50. Reportedly the pilots could see anyone in the cockpit.

    At 17:31 UTC the aircraft began to lose altitude and turned right until it entered a left-hand spiral off the Latvian coast.

    The final altitude received by Flightradar24 was 2100 ft at a -8000fpm descent rate.

    A Swedish rescue helicopter was able to find wreckage and an oil slick in the water.

    The pilot of the aircraft was the owner of Quick Air, an air charter company based in Cologne (Köln) .