Private jet flies across Europe into Baltic Sea after losing radio contact

Fighter jets scrambled to make contact saw no one' in plane carrying family of three from Spain to Cologne

A private jet carrying four people that was due to land in Germany but which continued to fly across Europe as air traffic controllers tried unsuccessfully to make contact crashed off the Latvian coast, authorities said.

The jet was flying between Spain and Cologne but when it changed course, air traffic controllers were not able to make contact", the Latvian civil aviation agency said in a statement.