Norwegian mail plane crashes in northern Sweden
A plane carrying mail crashed in northern Sweden on early Friday after issuing a distress call, authorities said, according to newsfultoncounty.com.
The plane, which was a model Canadair CRJ 200, was on its way from Oslo airport to the city of Tromso, located in northern Norway, before it disappeared from the radar and crashed in the mountains of northern Sweden, according to the Swedish police.
The flight company West Atlantic, said the two pilots onboard were a 42-year-old man from Spain and a 34-year-old man from France. Both pilots had more than 3,000 flight hours according to the Swedish daily newspaper Svenska Dagbladet.
Swedish mountain rescue services are trying to make their way to the crash site, but the mountain terrains and the cold weather is making it difficult, according to Svenska Dagbladet.