nsnbc : A private plane described as a Lear Jet with two on board crashed after a collision with a German Air Force Eurofighter above the town of Olsberg, Sauerland, in the German State Nordrhein Westfalen, reports local police.
A spokesperson for police in the district of Hochsauerlandkreis in the German Federal State of Nordrhein Westfalen, reported the accident.
The German armed forces and a spokesperson for the German Air Force confirmed for the magazine Spiegel Online.de and the daily Bild, that the military plane was a German Air Force Eurofighter.
The military jet reportedly landed at the Nörvenich air base near the city of Köln. The civilian plane, a Lear Jet, crashed in an unpopulated area.
A Lear Jet is a two-engine private jet build by Bombardier and one of the most common passenger planes used for private air travel and business.
There are so far no reports about fatalities, police and rescue operations are in progress. More details later.
Ch/L – nsnbc 23.06.2014
