Al Jazeera :
A small plane carrying skydivers crashed outside the Swedish city of Orebro on Thursday night, killing all nine people on board, police said.
The dead included the pilot and eight passengers, police said.
The victims were members of a local skydiving club, according to Orebro County Governor Maria Larsson.
Spokesperson Carl-Johan Linde of the Swedish Maritime Administration, which oversees air traffic, told broadcaster SVT the crash must have occurred “in connection” with the plane’s takeoff.
The plane burst into flames upon impact on what appeared to be an open field.
“There were no lives to save,” local fire chief Per-Ove Staberyd, who coordinated the work of firefighters and other first responders, said.
Police received word of the crash shortly before 7:30pm local time (17:30 GMT) and quickly knew it was “a very serious incident”, deputy regional police chief Niclas Hallgren said on Friday.
