Tried to cut off the plane before it crashed – news Vestland

Late in the afternoon on Sunday 5 June, shortly before the accident, the plane with missing Lars and Filip Haukeland flew into the controlled airspace of Schiphol without clearance, reports BT. The police helicopter tried to intercept the plane without success. The tower at Schiphol must not have been in contact with the aircraft. Father and son were reported missing after their small plane crashed on the first day of Pentecost. The plane took off from Bergen on Sunday morning and will have the stopover in Germany on its way to France. It was bad weather the day the accident happened. After an extensive search operation, a flight wing and life jackets were found. On Monday 13 June, new searches were made for the dead who at that time had been missing for a week. – We do everything we can to find the people and the wreckage, said Therese Ariaans, spokesperson for the national Dutch police to news after the accident. ON THE WAY TO FRANCE: The plane crashed in the Netherlands, on its way from Bergen via Germany to France. Tried to intercept the plane According to BT, the flight tower at Schiphol called a police helicopter at 17.45. The helicopter was then told to cut off the “target”. Then the plane found itself between Amsterdam and Rotterdam. The plane must have had a high speed, and the helicopter was therefore unable to catch the plane. After about ten minutes in the air, they interrupted the operation, and the police helicopter turned around. The helicopter never had visual contact with the plane, Dutch police confirm. There is also no reason to believe that Haukeland knew that a police helicopter had been sent to intercept him, the police say. Traffic airspace The airspace around Schiphol is the fourth busiest airspace in Europe. It has an average of over 1200 flights every day, according to BT. In order to be able to move into the controlled airspace, one must have clearance. The plane with the missing on board entered the northern part of the airspace in the period before 17.45.



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